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The great American refusal openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy The great American refusal Brazil after Lula: left vs left The Prorizna Street rebellion The Vatican’s fix: abuse and renewal Major Taliban allies in peace talks with Karzai The legal status of armed opposition groups in Afghanistan Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible: Notes on the 10-Year Making of The Suiciders The great American refusal There was a time, during the presidency of James Monroe (1817-25), that came to be called the “era of good feelings”. When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, tens of millions of Americans shared his own dream: that after... Read more » Brazil after Lula: left vs left As a cooling Rio summer sees the refreshing "March waters" clean the streets of Ipanema and the souls of the cariocas after the carnival, the political season is warming up. Beyond the next big occasion for many Brazilians - the South Africa-hosted... Read more » The Prorizna Street rebellion Ukrainians are keeping a wary eye on the new government of Viktor Yanukovych following his victory in the two-round presidential election of January-February 2010. Some of them are also setting him an example of what collective action in the public... Read more » The Vatican’s fix: abuse and renewal The Archbishop of Vienna has broken ranks. Few observers would have regarded Cardinal Christoph Schönborn as a radical – after all, he was largely responsible for the much criticised Catechism of the Catholic Church. Now, however, he is on record... Read more » Major Taliban allies in peace talks with Karzai In an unprecedented step towards peace, Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai met with envoys from the country’s second largest militant group on Monday. Representatives from Hezb-e-Islami, an insurgent faction that is loosely allied with the... Read more » The legal status of armed opposition groups in Afghanistan Throughout Afghanistan, one of the world's most unstable territories, several armed groups are conducting a campaign to overthrow the central government in rural areas, mainly in the south, where cultivation of poppies has flourished since... Read more » Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible: Notes on the 10-Year Making of The Suiciders Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Georg Baselitz and his notion of “bad painting.” How this might correspond to writing, “bad writing.” To write badly on purpose. There is not much of a history to this anti-tradition in literature.... Read more »