Controversies over the legacies of dictatorship and civil war have polarized the Spanish debate for over two decades. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s death, the legitimacy of the transition is uncertain. Could things have been done differently?

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It’s only two months into Trump’s second presidency and Americans are already suffering from nightmarish visions of democracy being suffocated. Brutal spending cuts in the name of efficiency, coercion of institutions threatening academic freedom, strong-arming law firms into pro bono work – all inducing fight or flight responses.

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From getaway destination to point of entry, the EU’s southernmost territories attract plenty of ongoing arrivals. Migrant containment policies, outlining stringent confinement and processing, would see newcomers restricted to the archipelago. But could Spain’s swift transfers and regularization turn the tide of migration strategy?

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The Taliban’s persecution of musicians in Afghanistan; how performing the wrong songs became deadly in Turkey; a fresh wave of repressions against popular music in Cuba; and the stigmatization of drill in the UK.

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Dangerous dreams

New Humanist 139 (2024)

Problematic tech philosophies: How ‘effective altruism’ and ‘longtermism’ have permeated the highest echelons of academia and government; the ethical concerns surrounding brain-computer interfaces; and enduring obsessions with the blood transfusion.

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Nationless identity

Glänta 2/2024

On the past, present and future of Kurdistan: rethinking power structures; statelessness in a world of states; and Kurdistan as a war laboratory.

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Cover for: Mood of the Union 2024

The European Parliament elections on 9 June are a referendum on EU policy since 2019. Will voters give Europe the green light for further progress, or pull the brakes? A new Eurozine series measures the political atmosphere in the EU and its neighbourhoods at this crucial moment.

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Food and water systems under pressure: as the end of abundance becomes an everyday experience in Europe, we are thinking more closely about how our food reaches the table.

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Post-revolutionary Ukrainian society displays a unique mix of hope, enthusiasm, social creativity, collective trauma of war, radicalism and disillusionment. With the Maidan becoming history, the focal point ‘Ukraine in European Dialogue’ explores the new challenges facing the young democracy, its place in Europe, and the lessons it might offer for the future of the European project.

Cover for: The writing on the wall

Some observers, recalling the disasters of the 1920s and 30s, are suggesting that an anti-democratic counterrevolution on a global scale has begun. But is the writing really on the wall? Or does declinism prevent us from recognizing moments of democratic renewal?

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