- Local council call in bailiffs over debts of just £3. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/local-councils-instruct-bailiffs-over-3-pound-debt-cost-of-living-crisis/ 13 comments worldnews
- Greta Thunberg’s arrest shows why we must abolish the Energy Charter Treaty https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/greta-thunberg-energy-charter-treaty-lutzerath/ 119 comments environment
- Open Democracy opinion piece: EU’s hydrogen greenwash is last thing Ukraine needs https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/eu-ukraine-hydrogen-export-european-commission/ 4 comments environment
- Revealed: The lobbyist who helps Russian elites get access to Boris Johnson https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-the-lobbyist-who-helps-russian-elites-get-access-to-boris-johnson/ 3 comments worldnews
- Why it’s so infuriatingly hard to get around Europe by train https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/why-its-so-infuriatingly-hard-to-get-around-europe-by-train/ 22 comments europe
- Attacks on academic freedom escalate in France and Denmark https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/attacks-academic-freedom-escalate-france-and-denmark/ 9 comments europes
- US Catholics funded Malawi opponents of legal abortion in cases of rape https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/us-catholics-funded-malawi-opponents-legal-abortion-cases-rape/ 164 comments worldnews
- Not so ‘macho’ now? Fewer Italians than Swedes hold anti-feminist views, survey says https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/not-so-macho-now-fewer-italians-than-swedes-hold-anti-feminist-views-survey-says/ 44 comments europes
- Controversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/ 11 comments stallmanwasright
- US Christian anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ spent more than $20m in Europe https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/us-christian-anti-lgbt-20m-europe/ 187 comments europe
- Detained in Jordan for disobeying men, girls use art to tell their stories https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/detained-jordan-disobeying-men-girls-use-art-tell-their-stories/ 5 comments worldnews
- India is escalating Kashmir conflict by painting it as terrorism https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/openindia/india-escalating-kashmir-conflict-painting-it-terrorism/ 48 comments worldnews
- What’s Left in Poland? Can a left-wing coalition take on Poland’s duopoly? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/whats-left-in-poland-can-the-three-tenors-led-by-adrian-zandberg-take-on-polands-duopoly/ 49 comments europe
- Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insiders https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/facebook-and-google-pressured-eu-experts-soften-fake-news-regulations-say-insiders/ 2 comments technews
- Fresh evidence of Hungary vote-rigging raises concerns of fraud in European elections https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/breaking-fresh-evidence-hungary-vote-rigging-raises-concerns-fraud-european-elections/ 38 comments europe
- Revealed: the Trump-linked ‘Super PAC’ working behind the scenes to drive Europe’s voters to the far right https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revealed-the-trump-linked-super-pac-working-behind-the-scenes-to-drive-europes-voters-to-the-far-right/ 151 comments worldnews
- Theresa May spokesman sparks fresh suspicion of British ‘spying’ on EU officials https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/james-cusick/theresa-may-spokesman-sparks-fresh-suspicion-of-british-spying-on-eu-offic 11 comments europe
- Can grassroots historical initiatives bridge the gap between Poland and Ukraine? https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/svitlana-oslavska/the-gap-between-poland-and-ukraine 4 comments europe
- Kalmykia’s long goodbye https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/badma-biurchiev/kalmykia-s-long-goodbye 2 comments history
- Donald Trump is not the problem – he’s the symptom https://www.opendemocracy.net/nafeez-mosaddeq-ahmed/donald-trump-is-not-problem-he-s-symptom 6 comments politics
- Cornel West: Black America's neo-liberal sleepwalking is coming to an end https://www.opendemocracy.net/george-souvlis-cornel-west/cornel-west-black-america-s-neo-liberal-sleepwalking-is-coming-to-end 15 comments politics
- Brazil in Free Fall: With the 2016 Summer Olympics just months away, the country finds itself in a depression https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/fernando-betancor/brazil-in-free-fall 9 comments worldnews
- Ursula K Le Guin calls on fantasy and sci fi writers to envision alternatives to capitalism https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/araz-hachadourian/ursula-k-leguin-calls-on-fantasy-and-sci-fi-writers-to-envision-alt 33 comments books
- Just what is the point of the European Union? https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/shaun-lawson/just-what-is-point-of-european-union 20 comments europe
- Federal television in Russia has long been suspected of propaganda. Four Russian TV producers share their stories of life behind the lens. https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/dmitry-sidorov/how-russian-tv-propaganda-is-made?ocid=twitter#glink 23 comments russia
- Is it time for Jews to leave Europe? https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jack-omerjackaman/is-it-time-for-jews-to-leave-europe#.vdxlz9o4oko.reddit 54 comments europe
- “Greece will neither want to leave the euro nor threaten to do so” | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/yanis-varoufakis-j-luis-martin/%E2%80%9Cgreece-will-neither-want-to-leave-euro-nor-threat 3 comments europe
- Crisis brewing in Macedonia: With the world’s attention focused on the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the catastrophes claiming lives every day in Ukraine and Gaza, Brussels and Washington are paying little attention to the unfolding crisis in Macedonia. https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/roland-gjoni-shirley-cloyes-dioguardi/crisis-brewing-in-macedonia 14 comments europe
- How Snowden, surveillance and Scotland are nudging the UK towards deep constitutional reform. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/nick-pearce/how-snowden-surveillance-and-scotland-are-nudging-uk-towards-deep-constitutio 3 comments europe
- Europe is diverging: "This is not a recovery, but a joyless and jobless stagnation. Ignore it at your peril." http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/lorenzo-marsili/europe-is-diverging-ignore-it-at-your-peril 5 comments europe
- Meth – or Sisa, as it has been called on the streets of Athens – has become the drug of choice for a rising number of drug addicts in Greece. After Golden Dawn and rampant poverty, is meth use the latest face of the catastrophe in Athens? http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/joseph-rowlands-kyriakos-klosidis/sisa-is-meth-use-latest-face-of-catastrophe-in- 5 comments worldnews
- The pyres of Spring: The riots which besieged Stockholm's suburbs in late May, are not indicative of some ‘exclusion’ from mainstream Swedish society, but of the absence of society itself. http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/astrid-nordin/pyres-of-spring 24 comments europe
- The trouble with Fortress Europe | openDemocracy http://www.opendemocracy.net/matthew-carr/trouble-with-fortress-europe 5 comments europe
- Disenfranchisement of African American women by voter suppression. http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ruth-rosen/voter-suppression-schurick-doctrine-and-unravelling-of-american-democracy 3 comments politics
- He survived the gulag, and at 100 is an active blogger and Skyper http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/ekaterina-loushnikova/last-prisoner 3 comments indepthstories
- Privatisation, But No Private Property --- Who owns Russia's wealth? In the end, nobody. Law doesn't protect property rights. State seizes, extorts whatever it can. Yet the state is itself a mass of competing mafias. Economy is a permanent struggle for control http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/andrei-zaostrovtsev/privatisation-but-no-private-property 30 comments worldnews
- Germany Snubs Europe, Goes Global - German economy bounces back. Stronger Merkel charts new course after Greek crisis. Germany doesn't want to anchor, bankroll EU. Top priority is pursuing own global trading interests http://www.opendemocracy.net/ulrike-guerot/germany-goes-global-farewell-europe 3 comments worldnews
- “The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.” Salman Rushdie sounds the call for a new enlightenment. (2005) http://www.opendemocracy.net/faith-europe_islam/article_2331.jsp 3 comments politics
- Diplomacy doesn't only mean negotiating with countries we agree with, it means sitting down with friends and foes in order to find a realistic solution which would stop killing." http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalisation/institutions_government/not_so_quiet_american 2 comments reddit.com
- "Defend the right to be offended" - Salman Rushdie http://www.opendemocracy.net/faith-europe_islam/article_2331.jsp 48 comments reddit.com