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Once a Sandinista revolutionary, Ortega’s oppressive neoliberal regime now imprisons opponents and raids newspaper offices.
Corporate rebranding is fundamental to the spread of metacapitalism which uses increasingly sophisticated technology to shape, exploit and profit from human interaction.
The Conservative MP has resigned after a chaotic 24 hours and a deeply controversial parliamentary vote.
Recent threats by the Bosnian Serb leadership of dismantling the shared state institutions endanger the stability and security of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The military takeover and arrest of activists may well bring Sudan’s divided opposition together.
Plus, why reusable food containers aren’t always better for the environment than disposable ones. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
These children are not getting the help they need to thrive at school and at home.
New data shows how public disaffection with the regime of Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, is affecting the country’s attempts to fight COVID.
The less an ad explicitly tells us what to do, the more likely we are to engage with it. This is particularly true – and more detrimental – when we’re very young.
Government commissioned research on conversion therapy sheds light on potentially damaging practices as public consultation on a ban opens.
Explaining the rule of law crisis shaking the relationship between Poland and the EU.
Kashmiri students were among more than 14 people arrested for celebrating Pakistan’s recent win over India.
Years of bitter words and dodgy use of history eventually became the foundations of the modern law of the sea.
BBC director-general, Tim Davie, has released a new plan to beef up fact checking in the public broadcaster’s news programmes.
The prime minister’s party has long sought to reconcile political popularity with fiscal constraint.
Data is patchy but this is what we know so far.
From colonial times in Sudan, power has always come from the barrel of a gun.
The age-old idea that Afghan women need rescuing from their men is a western construct that ignores the voices of Afghan women.
Journalists and whistleblowers are being targeted by expensive lawsuits to stop them working.
Should the chancellor cut taxes to win votes ahead of the next election? It’s tempting but a lesson from history shows what happens when you go too far.
What does communism 2.0 mean for democracy?
There is nothing stopping a place in the UK declaring itself a city – but most campaigns covet a royal charter.
Just like in real life, the idea that everyone in the game has a fair shot is quickly exposed as a fallacy.
Plus, an extract from the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast on the damage done when North Americans pretend to have Indigenous identity. Listen to episode 38 of The Conversation Weekly.