How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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

There’s still time to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Can we pull it off? Hazel Healy makes the case for conditional optimism.

The dirt on waste. Dinyar Godrej argues that the problems with our throwaway society add up to much more than the sum of individual actions.

Trust in tatters. Business model busted. And journalism under attack from all sides. So why does Vanessa Baird think that the news media has a bright future?

Technology is changing society at breakneck speed but considerations of human impacts lag far behind. Dinyar Godrej sketches out some of the key political battles ahead.

Tbilisi’s clubbing scene is in the crosshairs of a war on culture led by reactionary elements in Georgia, opposed to its progressive ethos.

Will Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s new, gay Taoiseach, live up to high expectations? Richard Swift reports.

The election on 1 April gave Carlos Alvarado Quesada’s National Action Party (PAN) more than 60 per cent of the vote and makes him one of the under-40 club of victors in presidential elections (France, New Zealand and Iceland).

Transit; The Chambermaid.

The Bitch by Pilar Quintana; The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé; Between Light and Storm by Esther Woolfson; Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick.

Uprize! by Spaza; Zan by Liraz.

Her acquaintance with an Urdu poet reveals to Parsa Sanjana Sajid the deep waters of identity and prejudice.

Sian Griffiths meets a 10-year-old who is already a veteran transgender activist.

Donald Trump's right-hand man is at the centre of global power. And he's dangerous.

Changing habits; Tech takeover; Trust in media; Who owns it?

The photos, facts and politics of Palestine

Police violence by Thiago Lucas (Brazil).