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Overcoming the Left’s Politics of Powerlessness—With Yotam Marom

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The midterms as a story of power and balance

Making democracy work means navigating questions of power: Who wields it? What are the checks or limits on it? Do voters expect leaders to strike compromises as well as stand on pr...

Powerbrokers’ Debate: Hustlers of the world, unite

Shoot the People: Global Activism through Misan Harriman’s Lens

Influential British Nigerian photographer and activist Misan Harriman captures global protests that drive social change.

Op-Ed: People Are the Powerbase of the Shipping Business

Decarbonisation, digitalisation, shifting patterns of global trade and an increasing level of influence from Asia are continuing to reshape the shippi...

Building Community Power from Rocinha to Chicago’s South and West Sides

Community media, neighborhood assemblies, environmental justice campaigns, and grassroots voter engagement efforts are helping marginalized communities transform local challenges i...

Democracy's dirty little trick: You get the blame. The powerful get their way.

We the People.Three of the most famous words in American history. They’re a source of pride for every red-blooded American patriot. Why? What exactly do those words symbolize?What...

The Connection Between Power, Influence, and Political Secrets in It’s Darke Outside

  Exploring the Hidden Forces Behind Decisions, Ambition, and Control History is often remembered through the moments that happen in public: elections, speeches, protests, scandals...

Spain Shows Narrative Management in Real Time

How the Madrid government leveraged a high-profile eviction crisis to neutralize right-wing momentum after the unprecedented Ceuta border shock

The people should prevail

This is the problem we are up against. It is a letter published two days ago in a French newspaper by French investment adviser Edouard Read the full article...

Alfredo Jaar On America, the Concentration of Power and the Art of Staying Awake

Nearly four decades after 'A Logo for America' first appeared in Times Square, the artist reflects on how its meaning has shifted with history and why he continues to interrogate p...

We're in this together, Earth's leaders told each other at the UN. But how does that work, exactly?

There is a growing cry for permanent seats at the table of power, for island nations threatened by climate change and, more than anything, for Africa.

Grassroots voices for guiding governance

The invisible workers

In the news, it is those who break the law and those who make the most noise who dominate the narrative.

'The Fault Line': A documentary miniseries revisits the election that changed Israel

Avida Livny's documentary returns to Israel's 1981 election and shows that right-wing violence was a strategy that worked – and worked well

From the hostages to protective presence: Israelis know it's on them

From memorials to protective presence and saving their own lives: With a government that only prioritizes its own political survival, Israeli civil society has prevailed where its...

「法の支配」と「力の支配」　平和賞とICC制裁のコントラスト

Two Summits in Bangkok: IMF/World Bank and Finance Ministers Inside, the People’s Assembly Outside

BANGKOK, Thailand, October 19 (IPS) - Bangkok hosted two summits last week. Inside the Queen Sirikit Convention Center, more than 15,000 finance ministers, central bank governors...

In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for horror elsewhere? | Ahdaf Soueif

For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed and displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us allLast week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national...

The Hidden Human Cost of Kim Jong-un’s New Power

The North Korean leader’s financial and diplomatic leverage rests on the brutal exploitation of his own people, from coal miners to diplomats, at home and abroad.

「政治色が強まると人が減る」時代の活動とは？　新たなつながり模索

Media Watch: Oct 19

Tonight on ABC, Linton Besser looks at the documentary dividing Israel.

Press Coverage of French Protests Broadcasts Neoliberal Message That Markets Matter More Than People

The media is speaking with almost one voice to enforce the neoliberal order: ordinary citizens must submit to the needs of the investor class.

The people who live in cities must have a say in how they are shaped: Notes from the Common City Conference

Urban growth in Africa comes with falls on the poorest residents: forced evictions, informal settlements razed for redevelopment projects, with no consultation of the people who li...