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Ovi is an online eMagazine that offers opinion and comment upon contemporary issues, along with articles on a wide range of subjects: philosophy, poetry, literature, cartoons, art with 20 years of history online.
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The rival Kushner hasn’t seen coming yet by Markus Gibbons
Jared Kushner might still be smiling for the cameras, confident in the precision of his spreadsheets and the apparent smoothness of his grand “reconstruction vision” for Gaza but behind the polishe…
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Trump’s hillbilly leprechaun of discord by Howard Morton
In the theater of American politics, few actors have been cast with as much sinister ambiguity as JD Vance. Once a memoirist who chronicled the travails of Appalachian life with some charm, he now …
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How humanity has failed the poor by Shanna Shepard
Every year on October 17, the world observes the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Speeches are made, reports are published, and promises echo in conference halls from Geneva to New…
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Trump’s ‘non-international’ conflict at sea by Edoardo Moretti
It seems that Donald Trump has discovered a new frontier for American warfare, somewhere between the Gulf of Mexico and the twilight zone of legal semantics. The former president has notified Congr…
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#eBook The rise of illiberal democracies by Thanos Kalamidas
20 plus one authoritarians completely out of the closetWe are living in an age of political illusions. The old binaries, democracy versus dictatorship, the free world versus authoritarianism, have …
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From chaos to complacency and Ursula in the middle by Gabriele Schmitt
The world is not just changing it’s unravelling. What we are witnessing is not the natural evolution of politics or society but the deliberate corrosion of values, institutions, and decency. The ar…
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The right to dissent. A reminder to those who pretend to defend the Constitution by John Reid
There are moments in American history when it becomes painfully clear that the people who shout loudest about “defending the Constitution” have not actually read it or worse, they’ve chosen to igno…
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Why the war on education is really a war on the future by Shanna Shepard
October 15th marks World Students’ Day, a date meant to celebrate the power of education, curiosity, and the young minds that will shape tomorrow. Yet this year, it feels less like a celebration an…
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Kemi Badenoch should look to Thatcher not Farage by Gabriele Schmitt
There’s a strange irony in British politics today. Nigel Farage, a man who has never sat in the House of Commons, seems to cast a longer shadow over the Conservative Party than Margaret Thatcher, w…
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When the world stops pretending to be free by Edoardo Moretti
It feels as though the world has started rehearsing for a darker chapter of history, one where flags wave higher than reason, and strongmen step out from the shadows, dusting off the same playbooks…
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