How rightwing beliefs shape your view of the past – while leftwingers look to the future: The division between right and left around the world has rarely felt more polarised. Of course there have always been differences between people on the different ends of the political spectrum, but now it seems they are living in …
Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants: Workers in the welfare sector are currently giving Sweden’s government a significant headache in a dispute about upholding professional ethics. They are opposing a planned law that would require them to “snitch” on undocumented migrants. And since …
The parallel economy: the rightwing movement creating a safe haven for deplatformed conservative influencers: Jirapong Manustrong/Shutterstock The last few years have seen the west swept by political polarisation, much of which has played out online. Debates around race, gender and freedom of speech have splintered democracies, spread conspiracy theories and sparked a series of culture …
Chile: election of progressive indigenous academic to oversee constitutional reform is a blow to right-wing establishment: An indigenous academic will head up Chile’s newly formed constitutional convention, sending shock waves through Chile’s conservative right-wing establishment. Elisa Loncon was voted in by delegates on July 4 after an election on May 17 returned a large majority …
Britain’s right-wing tabloids have turned to ‘green nationalism’ to sell climate action: Lenscap Photography / shutterstock Britain’s right-wing tabloids have historically not been champions of action on climate change and other environmental issues. In fact they have prominently opposed such action, regularly providing space for climate scepticism and running frontpage stories that challenged the existence …
Latest weird right-wing trick: The Russians were actually helping Hillary: Trey Gowdy and other GOP zealots are hot to investigate a so-called scandal. Spoiler alert: It's not about Trump With all the activity around President Donald Trump's cruel and unnecessary battle with Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson and Rep. Frederica Wilson, as well as a …