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Idaho: the youth against the radical right
BEN CLINTON looks at the wave of ultraconservative, often violent activism sweeping the Republican Party fringes without its condemnation — and one state where young people are leading the charge against this dark phenomenon
GENESIS OF THE RIGHT: Outside during the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021 attack on the building
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JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media
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IN WESTERN politics, the idea of young people being at the forefront, the trendsetters of opposition to neo-authoritarianism, is an increasingly real proposition. As formerly leftist parties in Britain and the EU sink back into centrist pragmatism, young activists are gaining more and more traction.
Democracy is faltering in the US due to conspiracy theorists, deranged Donald Trump supporters and militia groups. One state is experiencing this on a truly explicit scale — Idaho.
Idaho has never been the most liberal state on the US map. In every presidential election since 1968, it has voted for the Republican candidate by a wide margin. Yet, what many are experiencing within the state now is nothing short of an insurgency.
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