Nina Trige Andersen

PORTRAIT: The entrepreneur Uffe Elbæk had almost lost his courage after a number of years in parliamentary politics. After conversations with various inspirers, he is once again ready to believe that tomorrow can be better for all of us

PHOTOGRAPH: Cultural researcher Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive by trawling Istanbul's markets for antiques and rarities. With a selection of these photographs, she analyzes the relationship between population and state ideology during the establishment of the secular republic of Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.

CONSPIRACY THEORY: When states, politicians and companies hide the facts and tell half-truths, conspiracy theories become the attempt of the powerless to understand the reality that conditions their lives – and if possible change it. Conspiracy as both a revolutionary and authoritarian tool, pandemics such as AIDS and covid19, post-truth mythologies, the US's military build-up, gold rush and deindustrialisation, al-Qaeda and UFOs are touched upon here.

DETROIT: When the financial crisis rolled over the United States in 2008 and since then the rest of the world, Detroit was already winding down as the proud industrial city it had once been. While investor vultures gathered like dark clouds and politicians arranged for the great grave robbery, the city's remaining inhabitants also gathered for a different way of thinking about the city and property.

PHILLIPINES: Economist JC Punongbayan debunks many of the myths that allowed the Marcos dynasty to retake the presidential palace in the Philippines 50 years after former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. – a regime at least as brutal as Pinochet's Chile. For example, systematic use of disappearances, political executions, and widespread torture of activists and dissidents.

OCCUPATION: EU parliamentarian and former trade union leader Marianne Vind has written about the problems on the European labor market in the 21st century. It could have been an important book. It just isn't.

The Philippines: After six years of a political death campaign and up to 30 extrajudicial killings, the Philippines went to the polls in May. The inexplicable thing is that the Filipinos have chosen to let the Marcos era be resumed in version 000. President WW's daughter was elected to take up the post of vice-president in a race with former dictator Marcos' son.

FASCISM: This does not necessarily manifest itself through mass spectacles and revolutionary fractures, and it is not a primarily European phenomenon. But like a product of political crises in the modern capitalist states.

GLOBALIZATION: When the concept of «globalization› took over the academic and political language, and since everyday language, it was not primarily a description of reality that fit into a post-Cold War capitalism, argues new book.