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Why not Sanders?

Why didn't Bernie Sanders win in the general election? Swiss documentary reveals astonishing system failure in the US electoral system.

A golden, green landscape

Romania offers more than corruption, poverty and architectural remains of Ceausescu's great madness – for example, divinity, national feast and optimism.

Haakon Lie critical of new book

Norway secretly sent 50 tons of ammunition to Israel during the Yom Kippur war in 1973, according to a new book. – Free imagination that I was behind, says Haakon Lie (103), who is accused of being co-responsible. But Norwegian researchers provide support for the new information.

A parallel life

The Norwegian space game AD2460 is difficult to access at first, but the game offers great complexity and an interesting social dimension.

Electric car at new peak

On Tuesday, the figures showed that almost 600 new electric cars ran out of stores in September. Thus, sales of electric cars in Norway have tripled since last year. For now also come family cars with plug contact. 11,5 percent of new passenger cars sold last month are hybrids or electric cars.

- This is unheard of

Akhtar Chaudhry (SV) and Khalid Mahmood (Ap) withdraw from Afshan Rafiq (H) 's support for President Pervez Musharraf.

Movies from the East

Horror, anime, samurai film, experiment, costume drama, monster movie and softcore – all Japanese films are in tension between east and west.

The women's cultural barrier

Swedish Katrine Kielos wants to talk about rape. American Ariel Levy wants to talk about sexuality. Both believe Western culture is more in the way of women's liberation than ever before.

Judith Butler: Notes Toward and Performative Theory of Assembly

The body as a starting point for Judith Butler's thinking about democracy is promising – but does not meet because of the author's one-sided reading of Hannah Arendt. 

Lessons learned from India

Indian Firaaq not only actualizes the choice but also succeeds in many ways better than Crash and Babel.

Then I handed them, the corals

By: Inger Synnøve Barth Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia: It is strangely jagged, the giant mussel Tridacna gigas, much like the vulva of an old lady who has ...

Intellectual revolution. Now!

We need to wreck the totalitarian thoughts of the 68 rebellion. But the need for a settlement with, and a rebellion against, today's adopted truths is at least as great as 40 years ago.

One question of innocence

No one is guilty of the tragedy depicted in the White Sea. But no one is innocent either.

Top women in the US and UN?

2016 can be a brand year for women and politics. The United States will elect a president, and the United Nations will have a new secretary general. Will a woman manage to break through?

The town's throaty rope

TRAVEL LETTER: It's not for nothing that this is the most mythologized city in the world, and perhaps one of the most fussy.

Young women are threatened with imprisonment

* On Tuesday, the Storting decided that Norwegian women receive military service from 1. January. But there are strong reasons for persuasion to escape. The defense forces the police in the neighborhood of the 18 year-olds to check the "realities" of exemption applications.

* Civil service has now been abolished, but the Defense still refuses every 7. application: Of those 545 who have applied for exemption in 2013-14, 83 is forced by them into the military.

Organic grief work

Something in the world has run smoothly – something opaque, animalistic.

The center of the world lies in Sunnfjord

Artist mobility seems to be a good thing for both the traveler and the city he travels to.

Refused to tame

When Kareem Amer tells people he has spent four years in prison for blogging, many respond with raising eyebrows. "Of...

Current: Audun Lysbakken

Audun Lysbakken will give SV a much needed vitamin injection during this weekend's World on the Left conference.

Hungry and beauty

What is our insatiable hunger for beauty? Where does it have its roots? And why is silence spreading now?

Dictator for a day

On the surface, Tropico 5 is merely a colorful and ironic strategy game, but the game also encompasses a number of political and social aspects that extend beyond the work's banana republic.

Flaum in the Eden of Europe

When Cannes senses the effects of climate change.

POETRY

Scandinavian poetry readers with an interest in what is written outside the home regions do not come out of the Swedish journal OEI.

Fløgstad on the war path

At the end of April, Kjartan Fløgstad will release his new novel "Magdalenafjorden". While we wait, it may be worth watching eighth on his three previous novels: "Grand Manila" (2006), "Border Jakobselv" (2009) and "Nordaustpassage" (2012) depict all the missing accounts of fascist ideologies, in Norway and out in the world. Where does it go now?