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Published in: 50.50: Opinion9/11 added ‘war on terror’ to US Christian Right’s racist agenda
White right-wing evangelical Christians were fighting racist culture wars long before the terrorist attacks on the...
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerFoucault! Five leftist and feminist thinkers also inspiring the far Right
WikiLeaks files show how figures from Antonio Gramsci to Simone de Beauvoir are revered, as well as feared, by...
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Published in: Home: NewsPolish media and opposition fight to save press freedom from state control
Government’s controversial bill ‘would wipe out one of last institutions to hold authorities accountable’ and could...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsRevealed: Files expose ‘culture war’ ties between anti-abortion groups and Brexit
WikiLeaks: The Intolerance Network filesLeading Conservatives, including a Tory Party donor and Vote Leave’s Matthew...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionTwo years on, we’re still failing the victims of the El Paso massacre
The inconvenient truth is that we don’t care enough about the victims of such attacks to tackle white supremacist terrorism
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghanistan’s future path to be determined by a corridor of power
The expanding Taliban’s new bond with China across a narrow border is set to greatly impact the region, and further...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionThe enduring appeal of Sayyid Qutb’s jihadist ideology
Sayyid Qutb’s ‘Milestones’, published in 1964, has been the ideological force behind a succession of violent Islamist groups
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Published in: 50.50: Review‘The Sex Lives of African Women’: an exhilarating, at times enraging new book
‘We are all on a journey towards sexual freedom,’ says author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, giving us a rare glimpse of...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionReligion and the state: unintended effects of anti-radicalisation policies
European governments’ anti-radicalisation policies may threaten the relationship between the citizen and the state
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Published in: 50.50: NewsSpanish government questioned about openDemocracy ‘conversion therapy’ findings
Following revelations that African clinics run by aid-funded groups offer anti-gay ‘therapy,’ a centre-Right party...
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Published in: Global Extremes: AnalysisWhy are Christians in Germany more immune to far-Right populism than in the US?
On opposite sides of the Atlantic, Christian communities are reacting very differently to the messages of right-wing...
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘I was afraid I was going to die’: Kenyan survivor of ‘conversion therapy’
Survivors of anti-LGBT ‘treatments’ in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda describe effects on their mental health, family...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsJeffrey Donaldson’s peace ‘institute’ changes name after authorities step in
Exclusive: New DUP leader’s company, which has received Foreign Office funding, rebranded after questions over right...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: FeatureSouth African radical-Right groups are mobilising against anti-LGBTIQ+ campaigns
Some conservative groups are trying to block a long-awaited Hate Crimes Bill, which has been urgently called for by...
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Published in: 50.50: News‘They came armed with stones’: Violent mob storms Tbilisi Pride offices
Georgia’s Pride march cancelled after protesters attacked activists, journalists and passers-by
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionHow it became normal to be Islamophobic in Belgium
The joint rise of anti-Muslim sentiment and the far Right in Flanders undermines minorities’ freedom of speech
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhat does justice mean for Indigenous survivors of genocide in Canada?
The discovery of yet more graves of Indigenous children taken by the government for forcible assimilation has – at...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHospitals across East Africa offer controversial anti-gay counselling
Six-month openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya,...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureAfrican activists show how churches can make space for queer people
Undeterred by threats and claims that they are ‘un-African’, these activists are making Christianity more inclusive
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureUS cities lead action to ban anti-LGBT ‘conversion therapy’
Despite opposition from the religious Right, activists are winning campaigns to outlaw practices that seek to ‘cure’...