Elon Musk’s amplification of anti-immigrant sentiment in Belfast, Southampton and beyond cannot be explained by ideology alone

Far from intervening responsibly against the Israeli genocide, the German left has fallen in with the German state in suppressing dissent and backing Israel. This cannot be attributed to historical me...

Benjamin Goldfrank, Melisa Ross, Yanina Welp

En Nueva York, tres jóvenes hijos de familias exiliadas del socialismo soviético militan hoy por Zohran Mamdani, un candidato a alcalde que se define como socialista. Sus historias familiares revelan ...

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

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In his blog for our UBS Hub, Liam Mullally explores the public library as an exemplar of public luxury.

The US migration regime.

Sortition or recruiting randomly selected everyday citizens is a core feature of climate assemblies. Sortition, the argument goes, enforces the princi…

Spaceflight is entering its cowboy era.

We are building our directory of organisations, funders, networks, and advocates working on forums of global citizen deliberation.

How regime change happens in America

"Deference epistemology responds to real, morally weighty experiences of being put down, ignored, sidelined, or silenced."

What weight should be given to the role of ideas in moments of radical change, as opposed to that of material interests and forces? From the Reformation to the Enlightenment, rise of Marxism and hegem...

136 books that made America think

The first CitiDem event will be a webinar on How to make citizens’ assemblies resonate?, held on Monday 17 February, 16.00-18.00 CET, and organised by the University of Bologna. The webinar wants to d...

The results were mixed.

Kickoff contribution by Kalypso Nicolaidis. Comments by Cristina Lafont and Nadia Urbinati, Sandra Seubert, Richard Bellamy , Svenja Ahlhaus and Eva Schmidt , Yves Sintomer , Alvaro Oleart , Brett Hen...

Gaza and censorship.

We are delighted to welcome applications for the position of Research Fellow within the Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact (i4i) project, an international collaboration to examine the variety...