London Climate Action Week won’t be the launchpad for these mobilisations—but it can be a moment to regroup, refocus, and strengthen our resolve. As the week ends, the priority must be looking ahead: ...

On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

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In Chile, state security forces are increasingly detaining, beating and harassing the volunteers of community-led soup kitchens. Carole Concha Bell speaks to the organizers resisting this intimidation ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’.

There’s more than enough to go round – if food is distributed evenly. A data visualization by David McCandless undoes the scarcity myth.

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

May-June 2024 Debt: Which way out? As more households – and countries – are pushed into unmanageable debt, this magazine explores how we got here, how debt connects us across borders and how debtors ...

Political rivalries have increasingly taken an ethnic hue in the West African country. If left unchecked the government risks alienating a segment of society and laying the groundwork for future ...

The disappearing Senegalese sardines Far out. Fishers haul in their catch some 60 kilometres off the coast of Saint Louis, Senegal. They report travelling further, for longer, to catch ever-dwindling ...