The political landscape changes quite frequently with new ideas, views and notions born from time to time. Lately, one might argue these concepts have tended to end up on the left side of the traditional political spectrum when arrangements are made to create order among newer elements in the old…
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In the long term, climate change is an existential problem for our species. In the short term, it is an existential threat to democracy. No government has a plan that is compatible with the goal everyone has agreed on, which is to limit the increase in the average global temperature…
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As we walk through the pillar vault of the democratic world, the capitals still shine, representing the achievements of the long political process of democratisation. However, achievements in a more turbulent world are under threat.…
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Imagine a world where free speech, free choice, and free thoughts are a thing of the past, something merely forgotten by the citizens, yet still felt in their core to be missing. It might seem like the ultimate gloom, a distant dystopia based on contrivances produced by a restless mind…
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It is not much of a challenge for us in the West to perceive the rise of modern liberal democracy as the predestined fate for our nations, similar to the view of the steady establishment of the present-day nation-state. This deterministic attitude deletes not merely all other possible options, but…
Read MoreBy Eric Axner-Norrman Have a look at a map of the world, and soon you will discover that the large landmasses that constitute our continents are surrounded by even larger bodies of water. Dry land is an exception rather than rule on our planet. All along stretches of coasts, shorelines…
Read MoreBy Anastasiia Khardikova Social media addiction is a young societal sickness. Some of us are aware of its virality: getting detox, distancing ourselves from some of the apps or even receiving an antidote by completely deleting it. Meanwhile, others keep feeding their bodies with this contagion and spread it all…
Read MoreBy Emil Schröder Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. It would not be a stretch to imagine that every single person reading this has used an application or product that is either provided or produced by one of these companies during the last 24 hours. At least one of them.…
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Secret humanitarian database systems, social media filtering and everyday citizen journalists. The invisible struggle keeping hope alive – where none is in sight.…
Read MoreAv Caroline Bark Många talar om USA som ett väldigt polariserat land där retoriken mellan republikaner och demokrater växt sig allt hårdare. En av få saker som republikaner och demokrater verkar kunna enas om är att desinformation och s.k. fake news spelar en central roll i splittringen. Däremot har de…
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