In shock after hearing of the London attack and a Bangalore assault, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on what could defeat hate of the ‘other’ and finally bring us together.

A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.

Chris Brazier's full interview with François Moné, the village's latest Chief.

Chris Brazier interviews Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English at Oxford University.

Does it matter that Google, Facebook and Amazon are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.

And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.

The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.

The world’s last great woodlands are fast disappearing – with untold consequences for the environment and for us. Time to stop the destruction, argues Wayne Ellwood.

How do oppressive ideologies take hold despite the devastation they cause? Dinyar Godrej looks behind the news headlines.

The former New York municipal employee became president of the problem-plagued Federal Republic of Somalia.

Growing civil unrest in Ethiopia suggests that the ruling party may be beginning to lose its grip on power, Matthew Newsome writes.

Giedre Steikunaite reports on problems for pacfists in Europe.

The Handmaiden; Frantz: have a look at the film reviews of the month.

The Story of a Brief Marriage, Talking To My Country The History Thieves and others reviewed in this month's New Internationalist magazine.

Mogoya by Oumou Sangaré; The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda: our music reviews of the month.

Green shoots of hope spring up among the rubble of discontent, writes Reem Haddad.

Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja smiles in the face of adversity.

Kim Jong-un's headline grabbing aggressive irrationalism takes some beating (though he might have met his match in recent times...)

Rising distrust of politicians and parliaments, declining voter turnouts – these are now common trends in many established democracies. But is support for democracy itself ebbing away?

Eleanor Hobhouse considers the state of Africa's newest nation, five years after independence.

Simon Kneebone's cartoon from our June magazine.