While the US imagines AI through dystopia and lost human agency, China’s embrace of the technology is shaped by memories of poverty, national humiliation and the conviction that technological progress ...

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Bogotá, Colombia— A car horn pierces the twilight hanging over the city. A young man stands in a silver SUV racing through the streets, half his body hanging out of the sunroof, as the Colombian flag ...

In March 2025, a neighbour noticed a foul smell emanating from Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi’s apartment. They called one of her ...

Two years after Kenya’s Gen Z uprising forced President William Ruto to withdraw the Finance Bill, organiser Ahmednoor Haji explains how protesters won – and why state violence is driving young people ...

In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis ...

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Progressives within Labour and the Green Party have told openDemocracy of their concern over Andy Burnham’s plans to hire one of the UK’s top lobbying bosses to run his No 10 operation. Burnham is set ...

As Justice Jeremy Johnson sentenced her to six years in prison last Friday, Leona Kamio spoke from the dock: “In order to hear the birds, the drones must be silent.” The line was adapted from a ...

In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot down a US Army Apache attack helicopter near the ...

Adding to the current turmoil in UK politics is the issue of military spending. Last week, it cost Keir Starmer his defence minister, and it will likely help precipitate Andy Burnham’s arrival in ...

Brexit bankroller Arron Banks’s close relationship with the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica – and the key role played by former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon in the early days of ...