Our weekly English-language bulletin featuring our pick from European print and one of our top articles from our weekly Přítomnost.
How Big Tech – especially Digital Health – is eroding the social contract Caroline Molloy Big Tech and its applications are often hailed as a way of democratizing healthcare. …
Daniel Leisegang The increasing use of facial recognition software by security services introduces a new era of surveillance. With it, public anonymity can be eliminated in a stroke. So why …
From the liberal public sphere to the information commons Dan Hind In response to political pressure, digital platforms are abandoning their laissez-faire approach to content and allying with …
Adam Ramsay The Conservative victory in the UK election was driven by hatred of a broken political process inflamed by disinformation and media cynicism, argues Adam Ramsay of openDemocracy. …
Deceptions and scams in the age of Trump Sidney Tarrow ‘Deep fakes’ are increasingly being used to damage the reputation of political leaders, interfere in elections, and undermine faith …
Dr. Alexander Görlach Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs The UK’s impending departure from the European Union on January 31 creates at least one certainty. Following the Tories’ …
Janne Wass Finnish politics today is dominated by women, many under the age of 35. This is a result of long-standing efforts to include more women in leadership. But the …
Revoking the MA in gender studies in Hungary and right-wing populist rhetoric Erzsébet Barát The Orbán regime’s ‘war on gender’ and scapegoating of scholarly dissent rely on long-lasting popular animosity …
An interview with George Blecher on US politics in the age of Trump George Blecher Adam Reichardt Media acceleration puts enormous emphasis on speed, creating a pressure on …
Daniel Pelletier Maximilian Probst Climate change is the biggest story ever – and yet the media do not do it justice. To blame are a number of journalistic vices, from …
Why fake news is good news Valentin Groebner The history of news is the history of the confusion between the real and the fake – with that master of disguise, …
Refugees and new divisions in Europe Valeria Korablyova Hannah Arendt once remarked that the rights of man proved to be unenforceable in postwar Europe. Currently, observes Valeria Korablyova, the …
Never have there been more refugees in the world as today: an estimated 45 million in total. So what’s the current relationship between international law, emancipatory politics and the rights of the …
Can artificial intelligence help in Ukraine’s fight against corruption? Kristina V. Arianina The Ukrainian government has announced a scheme to use AI to fight corruption in the Verkhovna Rada, the …
On the criminalization of homelessness in Hungary Vera Kovács The criminalization of homelessness was written into the Hungarian constitution in 2018, which caused international uproar and condemnation by the UN. …
The Kremlin and the media Maria Lipman On coming to power, Vladimir Putin set about restricting the freedoms that Russian media enjoyed under Yeltsin. After the protests of 2011–12, …
The transformation of Germany and east central Europe after 1989 Philipp Ther The strength of the German economy is often attributed to the shock therapy of the 1990s. But …
Deceptions and scams in the age of Trump Sidney Tarrow ‘Deep fakes’ – the latest phase in the use of artificial intelligence to simulate reality – are increasingly being …
Corruption, everyday managing and civic mobilization in post-socialist Romania Jill Massino The strategies that Romanians employ to negotiate the capitalist economy are much like those they used under socialism. Nepotism …