If their economic benefits are so underwhelming, why do countries jump at the chance to organize the Olympics? Niko Kommenda investigates.
Top stories
Can rightwingers be funny?
Steve Parry’s latest column from the November edition of New Internationalist magazine.
- Steve Parry
- Issue 497
- 22 Nov 2016
When a house is not a home
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.
- Lindsey Collen
- Issue 497
- 21 Nov 2016
‘I always carry Syria in my heart’
Rana Taloo, a Syrian humanitarian aid worker on the Turkish-Syrian border, tells her story.
- Rana Taloo
- Web
- 18 Nov 2016
Mixed Media: Films
I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach; The Innocents, directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- Issue 497
- 18 Nov 2016
PrEPped to go?
A new HIV preventive drug has sparked debate around the globe, as Amy Hall discovers.
Blogs
COP22: why climate justice must also be a struggle for sovereignty
The Dakota access pipeline is very much on the minds of indigenous delegates at the UN summit in Morocco, reports Morgan Curtis.
- Morgan Curtis
- 18 Nov 2016
The Bird on the Wire has finally flown – sing Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen was iconic for rebellious teenagers growing up in 1970s India, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 17 Nov 2016
Contracted into precarity
Anibel Ferus-Comelo explains how a disposable workforce is bearing the brunt of Indian economic growth.
- Anibel Ferus-Comelo
- 17 Nov 2016
Wolfgang Streeck: how will capitalism end?
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.
- Alessio Perrone
- 16 Nov 2016
The legal limbo of climate refugees
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.
- Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
- 14 Nov 2016
Election of Trump clarifies the struggle for climate justice
A climate denier elected to the White House presents many questions for the climate movement, write Nicolas Haeringer and Tadzio Müller.
- Nicolas Haeringer and Tadzio Müller
- 11 Nov 2016





