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Cover for: Burning down the house

Across Europe, forest fires are intensifying year upon year. Climate change, droughts, falling biodiversity and Eucalyptus trees are all factors that fuel the blazes. So how do we avoid fanning the flames? Tune into our next Standard Time Episode to find some answers!

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How can independent journalism compete in a sector facing heightened reporting time pressures and diminishing financial returns? How can it entice writers to remain true to earning an honest living when on the brink of insolvency? An established indie in southern Italy, where political pressures are intense, shares its resilient approach.

Cover for: Who’s afraid of gender?

Writing a trade book about the ‘anti-gender ideology movement’, feminist scholar Judith Butler takes on anti-intellectualism in form and content. Fear of gender diversity is confessional, they write: declaring cisgender rights under threat revokes those of all others. In contrast, gender studies opens up potential for the material and the social to be seen as one.

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For a strong start into the second season, we talk about corruption in the EU. In the basement of the European Parliament we talk Italian mafia, Orbán’s son-in-law, and the misuse of public funding in member states with MEPs.

Cover for: A map without guarantees

Israel has imposed different forms of settler colonialism across the map of historic Palestine, but nothing can be taken for granted. The refugee camp is itself a spatialization of a political demand, a space of waiting for an eventual return.

Cover for: A race against time and fraud

Billions in grants intended to help member states after COVID-19 emanate from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility. But potentially fraudulent use of funds and concerns about transparency bring the integrity of the RRF – and the EU itself – into question.

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The Active Amputee blog’s Björn Eser believes that the way we go about prosthetics should change. He’s a lover of the outdoors, even more so since his amputation, but he takes issue with the limits of social and medical support for disabled people.

Cover for: Are far-right ballots protest votes?

The first win in Germany’s state elections since the Nazi era, gains in European Parliament, another bid for power in France and new UK seats – the far right has seemingly raised its game this year to make political advances. How should progressives interpret extremist voting to counter dissatisfaction?

Cover for: The two-state solution: An illusion?

The two-state solution is often seen as empty talk. But it is the only alternative that offers a realistic prospect of peace in Israel-Palestine and the wider region. Putting it into practice will require not only genuine, detailed discussion, but above all a fundamental shift of mindset.

Cover for: Eurocommunism: The rise and fall of a hopeful project

Eurocommunism at first seemed to offer a strategy for socialist transformation in keeping with the complexities of contemporary western European societies. But by the mid-1980s its momentum had dissipated, leaving communist parties in deep crisis. Despite its political failure, however, Eurocommunism could also claim important achievements.

Cover for: Updating common knowledge

Given the rise in populist scepticism of scientific experts and conventional wisdom, approved research needs reliable means to reach as broad an audience as possible. Can Open Access, providing material for free to the reader, overcome its funding crisis and licensing issues to help speed up the green transition?

Cover for: Just ourselves

Conservatives in Ireland appeared to have lost the battle of ideas that now shapes the country. They were defeated by a cosmopolitan liberalism which set itself the task of dismantling the remnants of Irish Catholic identity. But a course correction may be under way.

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‘It was a cozy atmosphere’

A Knowledgeable Youth podcast

Youth: a symbol of the future but burdened by uncertainty and crises. The final episode of the Knowledgeable Youth podcast discusses ‘futurological’ outlooks and post-high school plans.

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