More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

Covid-19 has shown us that swift action on global health is possible, even if it still falls short. What could we achieve, asks Amy Hall, if we took an urgent approach to air pollution, another widespread killer?

People have always moved and cultures have always mingled. So why the myopic obsession with borders, asks Hazel Healy.

If the future of humanity lies in cities, says Dinyar Godrej, then it follows that inhabitants of every strata must have a right to it.

Yohann Koshy returns to the golden age of solidarity between Global South states and asks: what should a new internationalism look like?

Black Lives Matter and a new generation of activism has the potential to reawaken the global fight for black liberation, argues Amy Hall.

Anti-groping badges are becoming a popular tool in Japanese women’s fight against sexual harassment or chikan.

Report from Nigeria

The Balfour Declaration was a 67-word statement penned by Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. Lydia Noon reports

Sorry We Missed You; The Report.

Anatomy of a Killing by Ian Cobain; Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah; United We Are Unstoppable edited by Akshat Rathi; The Pride of an African Migrant by Mossocki ma Massocki.

Amazones Power; #FAKENEWS.

Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.

The untiring campaigner and guardian of the deep, Claire Nouvian, speaks with Veronique Mistiaen about the transformative experience that led to her choosing her path – on to eventual victory.

Richard Swift takes aim at Sava Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar, once friends but now foes at the pinnacle of violent South Sudanese politics.

Our dysfunctional food system was failing before Covid-19.

The photos, facts, and politics of Nigeria.

You can't possibly be serious?! - by P J Polyp.