Thailand’s future under King Rama X: lessons from three Asian countries
Dec 04, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Thailands crown prince has become King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun or Rama X, the tenth monarch of the Chakri dynasty, succeeding his father who died on October 13. But great uncertainly remains about...
Dec 04, 2016 01:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Theres a widespread belief that actually existing democracies are in the grip of a fast-paced world dominated by breaking news and all things instant. The following contribution sets out to question this belief. It takes...
How Castro shaped Cuban identity and what his death means to those exiled
Dec 02, 2016 05:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
On Nov. 25, when I heard the news of Cuban leader Fidel Castros death, I did not feel any sense of sadness, relief or joy. Instead, as a daughter of Cuban exiles, I experienced a mix of all those emotions. Children of...
10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump
Dec 02, 2016 05:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Three weeks after Donald Trump won a historic victory to become the 45th president of the United States, the media postmortems continue. In particular, the role played by the media and technology industries is coming...
Impeding Trump Inauguration Prompts Internet Archivists To Seek Asylum in Canada
Nov 30, 2016 10:07 am UTC| Commentary Politics
The internet is a pretty big place and contains a lot of information. Since it would be difficult to find all this information on ones own, archivists gather all existing data to organize them and make searching for...
The lack of justice for journalists' sources is a catastrophe for democracy
Nov 29, 2016 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Ten long years ago, Robert Norman was getting on with his demanding job as a prison officer at the high security Belmarsh Prison in London. Then in 2006 he became an undercover whistle-blower, revealing hidden details of...
French election 2017: everything you need to know about François Fillon
Nov 29, 2016 17:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The arrival of François Fillon as the right-wing Republican candidate in Frances 2017 election (lets not pretend it was between centre and right there were no centre candidates for the nomination), may have come as...