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For Klein, it’s all about mobilising the grassroots. Stephen Melkisethian

Naomi Klein or Al Gore? Making sense of contrasting views on climate change

Matthew C. Nisbet, Northeastern University

Earth is “fucked” and our insatiable growth economy is to blame. So argues Naomi Klein in her intentionally provocative best-seller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Klein is the latest…

The war on drugs is not working for every day Brazilians. Antonio Lacerda/EPA

Brazil’s politicians can’t ignore drug reform forever

Luís Fernando Tófoli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and Luciana Boiteux, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Brazil has a serious drug problem. The country lies beside the largest coca plantations in the world in Peru and Colombia. A sizeable part of the cocaine used in Europe moves through its vast territory…

A shared past and an uninspiring future. Sebastiao Moreira/EPA

Neither Rousseff nor Silva will do what’s right for Brazil

Marcelo Ridenti, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)

The most positive aspect of the Brazilian election is not just that the two front-runners are are women, but that gender issues are not the major focus of this campaign in the media. Still, the likely…

You call them budgie whats? Chris Jackson/PA

The view from abroad on a year of Abbott’s muscular conservatism

Carl Bridge, King's College London

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government was sworn in just over one year ago, making this an opportune moment to review its performance from an international perspective. Abbott and his Canadian…

I don’t think we’re in Falkirk any more. warriorwoman531

Americans torn between relief and confusion by Scottish No

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, University of Maryland

After a flurry of interest in the Scottish referendum, with the vote featuring on the front page of the New York Times and dominating nightly news programmes, Americans may now be wondering what all the…