PROLOG: SLAMPANS POLITISKA ENTRÉ

The next low-end category ready to reclaim? The slut. Karolina Ramqvist watches as sluts enter the debate and give new energy to issues on gender and class.

OM ALLIANSENS SKATTESPEL

The Swedish government does a Robin Hood in reverse and distributes money from the poor to the rich. Mikaela Valtersson from the Green Party looks into the statistics and the exact numbers.

OM VÄGEN TILL EU:S NÄSTA FÖRDRAG

Per Wirtén argues that the whole debate/débacle surrounding the proposition for a new EU constitution changed the idea of what is possible. Everybody now discusses democracy as the heart and core idea of the Union. Something important has changed.

RESELEDARNA

Nadja Hatem writes about the most extensive trial in Swedish history against refugee smugglers. She meets the accused after the verdict and asks herself if their activities were morally wrong or if they in fact did the right thing: help other people to survive.

ÄR REGERINGEN DÖDSMÄRKT?

In the election campaign, the liberal-conservative Alliance did everything the right way to win public opinion. But during the year after they formed the new government, they have done almost everything wrong and lost support on all fronts. The liberal columnist Per T Ohlsson and the social democrat Ursula Berge discuss what really happened. Is the liberal-conservative government already lost?

POLEN VS ALLA

Poland provokes the European Union. The reactionary rhetoric from the Polish government has shown the weak points of the Union. The political consequences are significant. Annika Ström Melin travels through a country in hyperfast development.

FRAMTIDENS VÄNSTER

15 young and radical intellectuals and activists answer the question of what the left has to do to be a leading force in Swedish politics and debate. The legendary sociologist Zygmunt Bauman puts the question differently in a long essay: Does the future have a left?

GUD I SKOLAN

In the US it is impossible to teach intelligent design as science. But there is no problem to do it in the Swedish school system -- and some do. Anna Hellgren asks why nobody tackles this issue.

KLIMATCHOCK

Arena publishes a piece from Andreas Malm's new book, the first in a trilogy on climate change and climate politics.