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Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages – in relation to Trump and Brexit, the company also played a nefarious role disseminating fake news in Africa. In Nigeria, it tried to influence the 2015 election

5 Nov 2018 3 minute read

Fake news is not just a Western problem

Misinformation is rife, but it’s nothing new, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Photo from the relaunch issue of New Internationalist

23 Aug 2018 3 minute read

A look inside the relaunched New Internationalist

It's finally here. Issue 515, the relaunch magazine, has officially landed!

9 Aug 2018 3 minute read

How we chose our relaunch cover

The making of #NI515: why we went for Tim Hetherington’s portrait from Liberia as the relaunch cover for the redesigned...

frightening erosion of human personality at the heart of the problem.

14 Dec 2018 7 minute read

The personality crisis

As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John...

10 Dec 2018 5 minute read

Stansted15: ‘To be found guilty of a terror-related charge is devastating’

On Human Rights Day, migrant rights activists have been convicted under anti-terror...

10 Dec 2018 12 minute read

Paper promises: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70

Why is it so easy for governments to ignore this much-feted document? TJ Coles analyzes the British case...

6 Dec 2018 7 minute read

Bringing Mexico’s missing out of the shadows

More than 37,000 people in Mexico are currently declared missing – seen as neither dead nor alive. Carlos Heras...

5 Dec 2019 8 minute read

Extinction Rebellion – in or out?

As climate talks kick off in Poland, five campaigners give their take on the UK’s newest direct-action...

5 Dec 2018 4 minute read

Banning ‘adult content’ won’t make Tumblr better or healthier

What does Tumblr's decision mean for those who rely on the site as one of the only sexually permissible online spaces?...

The Chinese waste ban is giving the global recycling industry an enormous headache. ... Beijing has last year banned the imports of 24 varieties of solid waste, including types of plastic and unsorted paper.

5 Dec 2018 7 minute read

No more of your junk

Adam Liebman explains why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.

4 Dec 2019 6 minute read

India: Adivasis march for an end to violence

Caught in the crossfire of state repression and guerilla fighters, Adivasi inhabitants of India’s ‘red...

3 Dec 2018 6 minute read

COP24: Who are these UN climate meetings for?

Nick Dowson highlights the issues up for debate, obstacles to negotiations and where all this leaves the...

30 Nov 2018 6 minute read

Canada’s shame: the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women

The shocking eugenicist policies can be seen as attempted cultural genocide, argues Jaipreet Virdi

28 Nov 2018 3 minute read

COP14: Corporate power and declining biodiversity

Nele Marien explains the scale and cost of financial lobbying against biodiversity efforts....

Lebanon’s trash #StopTheBurning campaign last week after it was revealed that staff at the landfills had been instructed to burn the vast amounts of garbage leftover by the 2015 crisis.

27 Nov 2018 4 minute read

Fighting the big burn: Lebanon's waste dilemma

The mismanagement of Lebanon’s trash has brought citizens onto the streets – and the latest plans are also stoking outrage....

23 Nov 2018 3 minute read

The movement replacing ads with anti-capitalism

Alessio Perrone reports on a new campaign of seizing ad space to impose powerful...

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