The Silver Lining to the Populist Cloud
The populist cloud which has descended lately has one silver lining. People are starting to really engage with the political process.
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Fear Wins Elections, Not Facts. It’s Time We Got Wise to the Tricks of Tyrants
Terrorism, nationalism and otherism have exploded into the global political discourse. And that's seriously good news for machiavellian politicians: they need that to be elected, writes Madelaine Hanson
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A Stand for Equality, a Stand Against Objectification
We have an opportunity here to change the landscape and make a stand for equality and ultimately the safety of women. It is not an opportunity to be missed and it certainly is not an occasion where the ‘locker room’ narrative can win.
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Why Trump’s Ideas on Science Are Illogical and Dangerous
With less than a month until Inauguration day, Donald Trump has already provided us with an insight about what his administration is going to be like: Scary. Specifically, the views of Trump and his government officials on science are utterly concerning: denying climate change, supporting the idea that vaccines are related to autism, denying the […]
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Sound the Trumpet
This article is originally featured on the Open Democracy 5050 website Trump offered white voters the illusion they could prosper. We have to offer all our people a way to move forward together and save the planet. In the weeks leading up to Nov. 8, as the election loomed like a cloud about to burst, […]
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How Identity Politics’ Zero-Sum World Produced President Trump
Political correctness and identitarianism were not the sole causes of President Trump. But, the antagonistic zero-sum thinking they have employed certainly had a role to play.
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Trump is To Be Feared… But Should We See His Victory as a ‘Failure’ for Democracy?
Now that the dust has settled there is time for reflection. A consensus seems to have been reached in the liberal media: the Democrats put Trump in the White House. The liberals have now accepted at least some of the responsibility. Backing Clinton was a mistake. She epitomised the political establishment – the opposite of […]
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Donald Trump, You Still Don’t Speak for America. Here’s Why
59,204,408 Americans voted for Hillary Clinton to be their next president. 59,058,307 voted for Donald Trump. 146,101 more Americans voted for Clinton than Trump. So why, then, is Trump scheduled to sit in the Oval Office as the United States’ 45th president come January 20th, 2017? The United States does not select winning candidates based […]
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Trump’s Victory is a Disaster for American Common Sense and Decency
Things weren’t supposed to be this way. Hillary Rodham Clinton looked as if she was treading a sure path to the White House. All major pollsters and newspapers were projecting that America waking up to their first female President-elect was all but inevitable. Trump had simply fought too divisive a campaign to win over enough […]
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