Politics / Democracy

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

Our privacy and freedom of thought is routinely and pervasively breached by the masters of surveillance capitalism. What is this doing to us as humans and to our democratic choices in life? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks to Vanessa Baird.

India is not short of divisive and harmful conspiracy theories. Now one, called ‘love jihad’, has been given legal teeth. Laxmi Murthy reports.

We make our political judgements based on the information we get – and the internet is brimming with it. That can be part of the problem...

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

We had binding quotas for women in politics? Vanessa Baird looks at what gender parity can do.

Update from Bolivia by Amy Booth.

A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

Report from Bahrain by Phil Miller.

We put the track record of Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea – and a liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight.

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality. But will the country’s future see it regain the sparkle its diamonds offer to the rich?

So many voices online. Surely that means more diversity and media democracy? Not really, explains Laura Basu.

After decades of denuding privatization policies, the green shoots of a public takeback are finally appearing. Dinyar Godrej on the promise and the threat.

The treatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya people has been seen as a genocide in the making. Parsa Sanjana Sajid visits those trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

Mass starvation is making a comeback as a weapon of war. To tackle this great evil we must stop talking about food and over-population, and engage with the politics, argues Alex de Waal.

Paraguayan democracy may have come a long way since the end of dictatorship, but terror is sweeping its agricultural heartlands where farmers and indigenous communities are resisting attempts to take away what little land they have left.

Inclusive rhetoric by Fiji’s PM is belied by police repression, reports Wame Valentine. And the economy’s in trouble. We profile Fiji today.

Activist Scott Weinstein dances with the terrorist label and finds it a fickle partner.

Mandeep Tiwana sorts through the many cloaks of authoritarianism donned by the political class as repression becomes the rule rather than the exception.

Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz summarize the twists and turns that landed Turkey where it is today.