Open Dialogue Research Journal
Israelis voted last Tuesday in their first national election since Hamas’s attack of 7 October 2023. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 10 p.m. local time. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in office for 19 years and is Israel’s longest-serving leader, it was a […]
Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States. In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing conflict against Iran with the dismissive promise that it would be dealt with after November 3. This could involve the renewal of force so far […]
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential runoff against the right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro, securing a fourth term that begins in January. The result ends a tense campaign, but it opens a harder phase. Brazil’s economy has beaten expectations in recent years, yet the government now faces mounting debt, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_6BM8nuc4U 28 October 2026 in Atlanta THEN PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE the 44th President of the United States, President Barack Obama. >> Hello Atlanta. [screaming] Hello for folks. [cheering] Ah, it is good to be back in Georgia. It is great to BE WITH YOU. IT’S GREAT TO be […]
The morning after Aleksandar Vucic’s surprise defeat, Serbian voters still did not know who would replace him. The movement that ousted him, Student List, won 53% of the vote in a snap election that Vucic himself had called in response to protests over alleged government corruption. The group is expected […]
Three days after losing Brazil’s presidential runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly left the country. Brazilian media, citing people close to the family, say he is heading to the United States and intends to request political asylum. Argentina’s government has confirmed part […]
The synchronicity with which Joey Mannarino, Valentina Gomez, Javier Negre and Weronika Rogowska suddenly started speaking is hard to miss. These were not isolated comments about Serbia. The same set of talking points, nearly identical formulations, the same framing: the Student List is a leaderless construct; the protests involve “Bosnian […]
Israel votes on Tuesday in its first national election since Hamas’s surprise attack of 7 October 2023, an event that shook the country, triggered war in Gaza and with Hamas’s allies in Lebanon and Iran, and plunged the region into turmoil. Opinion polls have predicted for months that Prime Minister […]
On Sunday night Aleksandar Vucic, the populist and nationalist who has dominated Serbian politics as prime minister or president since 2014, stood before television cameras and conceded defeat. “It is clear that we have lost these elections, the Student List has won,” he said. Within moments, tens of thousands of […]
At a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday night, Donald Trump told supporters he hoped for a “tremendous victory” in November. He then described the high prices caused by the Iran war as a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe – keeping our country safe”. […]
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