Issue 486 of New Internationalist

October 2015

The transgender revolution

How is money – and debt – created? The answer, says Peter Stalker, may surprise you.

Burma’s elections this November will be closely contested - but will the country’s ethnic minorities finally be heard? Tina...

Tees Finch-Lees shines a spotlight on this north-eastern African country.

A collection of pro trans organizations, websites, support groups, books, movies and more, from New Internationalist's October...

Jennie Kermode on being ‘in the middle’.

Eight people from across the world share their transgender experience.

This New Internationalist editorial takes a look at Germany's finance minister.

Visibility offers no protection for trans people in Brazil. Amanda Palha analyses the roots of violence and exclusion faced by...

Book reviews from our October magazine include The Underground by Hamid Ismailov; The New Threat by Jason Burke; The Wikileaks...

This New Internationalist fact spread looks at the violence and discrimination that trans people face.

Music reviews from the September issue of New Internationalist magazine.

It’s about basic human rights – and relinquishing fixed ideas that are doing harm, argues Vanessa Baird.