Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald is editor-in-chief of openDemocracy. Before joining oD she worked for Avaaz, the global campaigning organization, and is a former Senior Editor of Prospect Magazine. She has written for the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman and others. Follow her on Twitter @maryftz
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Views Monday, January 04, 2021 I Never Thought Democrats Could Win Georgia. Could It Happen Twice? My mother was 23 when she accidentally got pregnant with me. It was 1982 and she was a student living in Atlanta, Georgia. She came from a privileged background and my dad was on a full academic scholarship; they decided to continue the pregnancy and were married six weeks later. But had she been... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 03, 2021 I Never Thought Democrats Could Win Georgia. Could It Happen Twice? My mother was 23 when she accidentally got pregnant with me. It was 1982 and she was a student living in Atlanta, Georgia. She came from a privileged background and my dad was on a full academic scholarship; they decided to continue the pregnancy and were married six weeks later. But had she been... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 09, 2020 We Need Urgent Answers About the Massive NHS Covid Data Deal This week openDemocracy and Foxglove, a tech justice start-up, sent a legal letter demanding the UK government urgently publishes details of its controversial patient data deals with big tech companies – struck at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. If we don’t get this information, we will consider... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 18, 2019 US Isolated at 'Failed' Anti-Abortion Summit in Nairobi US representatives found themselves isolated at a “failed” counter-summit, organised by religious conservative groups, to protest against the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) in Nairobi this week. More than 9,500 people from 170 countries attended the three-day global... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 13, 2019 The American dark money behind Europe's far right Five years ago, Matteo Salvini stripped and posed half-naked for a series of "sexy" photos that were auctioned on eBay. At the time, he was a senior official of Italy's separatist Lega Nord party. His bizarre photoshoot took place on the sidelines of a National Front conference in France... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 28, 2019 Trump-Linked Christian Fundamentalists Are Pouring Dark Money Into Europe, Boosting the Far Right According to a new analysis released by openDemocracy , Christian-right fundamentalists linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of dark money into Europe over the last decade. Between them, these groups have backed... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 29, 2014 TTIP: The Most Important Thing You‘ve Never Heard Of Well, thanks to some encouraging ruckus in the last few months, you may actually have heard of TTIP: the anodynely-acronymed “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”. In plain English, it’s a massive trade deal between the EU and North America which could affect everything from healthcare... Read more |