If their economic benefits are so underwhelming, why do countries jump at the chance to organize the Olympics? Niko Kommenda investigates.

Steve Parry’s latest column from the November edition of New Internationalist magazine.

On the matter of decent housing, the government turns a deaf ear to poorer citizens, while bending over backwards to help the wealthy. Lindsey Collen, who penned this column from 2006 to 2007, returns with a one-off letter.

Rana Taloo, a Syrian humanitarian aid worker on the Turkish-Syrian border, tells her story.

I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach; The Innocents, directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine.

The Dakota access pipeline is very much on the minds of indigenous delegates at the UN summit in Morocco, reports Morgan Curtis.

Leonard Cohen was iconic for rebellious teenagers growing up in 1970s India, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Anibel Ferus-Comelo explains how a disposable workforce is bearing the brunt of Indian economic growth.

Capitalism’s end might be in sight, but it might not be good news, German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck warned in a conference. Alessio Perrone reports.

More and more people are displaced for environmental reasons, yet we are still to act to mitigate climate change or help those forced to move, writes Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik.