Mary Fitzgerald is editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, the global non-profit news website. She has previously worked at Avaaz, the global campaigning organisation, and is a former senior editor of Prospect Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Observer, New Statesman and others.
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