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Why Brazilian organised crime will struggle to take over European prisons

November 12, 2026

🌈 Meloni's electoral law hollows out Italy's gender quotas

November 11, 2026

The EU is digital by default, but human by right

November 10, 2026

🎈 Europe’s answer to the far right lies in visible, local benefits

November 9, 2026

When the wealthy can leave, whose votes still count?

November 6, 2026
November 4, 2026

🦋 What happens when you ask people to photograph democracy

Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann built the participatory method Photovoice into democracy studies, creating a three-step design that asks participants to put a photograph before a single word. The pictures that came back said almost nothing about elections – but a great deal about mailboxes, crocheted lace, and a rental bike... Read more
November 3, 2026

🔮 How US conservatives are adopting Orbán’s classroom war

Prokop Válek American conservatives revere the illiberal playbook of former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Perhaps nowhere is this inspiration more visible than in education. Yet, says Prokop Válek, this battleground against 'the woke agenda' also reveals clear limits to transnational populist learning Read more
November 2, 2026

Russia’s age-old strategy of exploiting minorities

Ibrahim Mammadli In March this year, a Russian online campaign promoted a fake 'Narva People’s Republic' in Estonia. It flopped. But the playbook behind it is still in use. Ibrahim Mammadli argues that Estonia can control only one step of that playbook: whether there are real grievances for Moscow to exploit. That makes integration, not tougher rules, the country’s most important security policy Read more
October 30, 2026

🌊 Colonial backlash: the far right and elections in Latin America

Nayara F. Macedo de Medeiros Albrecht Right-wing and far-right leaders have won recent elections in several Latin American countries. Against the backdrop of a history of US intervention in the region, these developments raise concerns about the resilience of democratic institutions, (neo)colonial influence, and the prospects for Latin American integration. Nayara F. Macedo de Medeiros Albrecht examines this changing political landscape through key political science concepts, including democracy and populism Read more
October 30, 2026

AI adoption should not outpace our ability to control it

Joe Torreggiani Joe Torreggiani, Rhianna C. Rogers and Swaptik Chowdhury argue that competition is pushing AI into use faster than it can be controlled. Drawing on a recent breach by AI agents at OpenAI and on their work in education, they call for safeguards that keep humans in control Read more

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