Women’s power alive in benighted Iran, Afghan and Russia

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Political unrest in Iran, Afghanistan and Russia all feature heavy involvement of women in uphill battles against dictatorial repression.  The death of a jailed woman in Iran has led to days of public protests across Iran. In response, the Tehran government has violently targeted female participants with batons and bullets. In Afghanistan, clusters of women have […]

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Democratic Party now the leading US party of war

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Last May a remarkable column by Stephen Kinzer appeared in The Boston Globe. It was headlined: “Republicans return to their roots as the anti-war party.”   More significantly, the subheading ran: “Since the Vietnam era, Americans have come to expect anti-war rhetoric from liberal Democrats. Cancel that.” The column began: “With Americans now engulfed in passion for […]

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How America’s democracy is ‘ripe to be exploited’

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A Pew poll finds that while their democratic system is not perfect, most Americans prefer it to one-party authoritarianism. Photo: iStock

Voters in Sweden this month gave a leading role to a far-right party with neo-Nazi roots. Italy is also on the cusp of putting a party in power that has fascist origins. And of course, in the United States, one party has increasingly embraced election denialism and attempted to undermine the legitimacy of the electoral […]

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