The Interview: Kate Raworth
As ecological collapse looms, our growth-at-all costs economic system urgently requires a different vision. Renegade economist Kate Raworth is preaching a new mindset fit for the challenges ahead. She spoke to…
The global coffee trade’s role in the Rwandan Genocide
Twenty-five years after the ‘fastest and most efficient murder campaign of the twentieth century’, Katie McQue examines the role that the global deregulation of the coffee trade had in destabilizing Rwanda.
Algeria’s uprising: ‘The people want independence!’
The Covid-19 pandemic may have put Algeria’s revolutionary uprising temporarily on hold, but, as Hamza Hamouchene observes, the will to topple the military regime remains strong.
Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights
There is an urgent need to improve the welfare and job quality of digital workers, write Mark Graham, Sai Englert and Jamie Woodcock.
How activists are exposing the colonial history of museums
Museums and colonialism are inextricably linked. Julio Etchart explores how projects in colonizing countries are wrestling with how to address that past.
‘The road to freedom lies ahead’
Klas Lundström examines the humanitarian crisis in West Papua as people continue to struggle for self-determination.
Can cash hand-outs cure poverty?
Vanessa Martina Silva considers the track record of Brazil’s flagship Bolsa Família, the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme.
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next
Chris Brazier looks back over a career as co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
Country profile: South Korea
Hailey Maxwell profiles the East Asian nation and its flourishing soft power.
If we all became vegan tomorrow
The Guardian repeats the myth that becoming vegan is the ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth. Chris Saltmarsh and Harpreet Kaur Paul disagree.
Brazil’s rich weaponize law to stop Lula campaign
‘Impossible’ for Lula to get fair trial, say lawyers. Vanessa Baird reports.
7 reasons why we should have open borders
Aisha Dodwell debunks the major myths preventing us from extending free movement to everyone.
How Palestine became Israel’s spyware test-bed
Antony Loewenstein examines spyware’s role in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and why governments are failing to reign in its insidious spread.
Xinjiang: living in a ghost world
Yohann Koshy speaks to anthropologist Darren Byler to find out what is going on in China’s predominantly Uyghur northwest province.
How we halt Big Oil's climate-wrecking business
We cannot let the fossil fuel industry block urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.
The indigenous resistance against Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro may be in power, but the Sateré indigenous people are not taking his hostility sitting down. Sue Branford reports from the Brazilian Amazon.
