Gender equality in Trump’s America
What has been the impact of Donald Trump’s decisions and public policies on the rights and liberties of women during the first year of his Presidency?
Democracy and citizenship
Democracies on the back foot
The retreat of democracies could also start to be a concern for global order, which is reverting to rivalry between great powers that are very different from one another.
The weaknesses of Spanish emigration
The Spaniards who have emigrated to other countries since the economic crisis have done so under worse conditions than other recent emigrants from the rest of Southern Europe.
Catalonia secessionist parties regain control of the region’s parliament
The election clearly showed the depth of pro-independence sentiment and the profound polarisation of society.
The geopolitics of sexual harassment
The sexual harassment of women has made its way onto the global agenda. What has started in the US could start to have geopolitical ramifications.
A time of general distrust
Distrust permeates our societies: distrust in governments, in parliaments, in the news media, and even corporations have lost ground in this respect.
Not everything has gone badly in Spain
In times of national angst, it is easy to become despondent and fall prey to the false belief that everything is going wrong in Spain.
Spain: reasons behind the prolonged absence of anti-European and xenophobic views
The recent crisis has been a litmus test of Spain’s Europeanism. There has been neither a surge of Euroscepticism nor of anti-immigration sentiment, although the so-called ‘naïf Europeanism’ which used to exist in the country is no longer there either.
Facebook’s new and unsettling mission: building a global community
In a 5,800-word declaration, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook aspired ‘to build the social infrastructure for a global community’.
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