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Why The Roots Of Resurgent Nationalism Run So Deep — And Wide

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A protester holds the Catalan flag during the demonstration. Farmers from Spain and France blocked the highways at the main border crossings between the two countries to protest against EU regulations on the industry. Davide Bonaldo/ZUMA

From Trump in the U.S., Eurosceptics in the UK, the Catalan independence movement or the growing rejection of immigration in much of the developed world shows that a century after the founding of fascism, the darker instincts of humans are always lurking just below the surface.

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A Battle For “New Rights” Or Trick To Maintain Wealth And Privilege?

A Battle For "New Rights" Or Trick To Maintain Wealth And Privilege?
Social organizations carrying out a mobilization in Buenos Aires Esteban Osorio/Pacific Press/ZUMA

The expansion of constitutional rights has become a rhetorical tool for populist governments, when they do nothing to address much more vital questions like wealth inequality and social injustice. Latin America offers sharp examples, past and present.

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