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Back to the drawing board
September, 2017
The Right has captured education all over the world. Hazel Healy makes the case for how to do things differently.
They are calling it ‘the intellectual massacre’. Since the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in July 2016, he has systematically purged e...
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Being the best
Do you ever get that ‘I wish I’d been a teacher’ moment?
I get it, sometimes – usually at my seven-year-old son’s ‘sharing assemblies’. Hundreds of children fill the school hall, which is decorated by supersized creations – paint...
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Latest blog and web-exclusive articles
New blog posts and web-exclusive articles from newint.org
‘Freedom can’t be contained by a wall’
504 - July, 2017
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis. By Karlos Zurutuza.
‘This is cultural genocide’
505 - September, 2017
Indigenous communities in Colombia refuse to occupy an empty space in history, and believe their very cultural survival is at stake, reports Hazel Healy.
Both hands on the spotlight for Rio’s favelas
499 - January, 2017
A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.
Recent feature articles
A selection of feature articles from each of the latest New Internationalist magazines.
Smiley-faced monopolists
494 - July, 2016
Does it matter that Google, Facebook and Amazon are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.
Did we learn the right lessons from Ebola?
493 - June, 2016
And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.
Last stand
491 - April, 2016
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.
Fight for the heart of Europe
489 - January, 2016
On the frontlines of the refugee crisis in Lesvos, Hazel Healy finds loss, humanity – and answers.
Why we should feel positive about Paris
21 - December, 2015
Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.
The lure of the dead-end
483 - June, 2015
How do oppressive ideologies take hold despite the devastation they cause? Dinyar Godrej looks behind the news headlines.
From the archives
A selection of articles from the New Internationalist magazine archives.
No cash, little hope for India's poor
501 - April, 2017
Many are finding it impossible to pay school fees for their malnourished children or to get medicines for ailing family members, writes Dilnaz Boga.
Introducing Carrie Lam
503 - June, 2017
Hong Kong has its first woman leader and her ‘election’ is shrouded in controversy, writes Richard Swift.
Mixed Media: Film
499 - January, 2017
Cameraperson, directed by Kirsten Johnson; Twentieth Century Women, directed by Mike Mills.
Mixed Media: Books
504 - July, 2017
I Was Told to Come Alone; Trans Like Me; We: Reviving Social Hope
When the lake ran dry
503 - June, 2017
Amy Booth visits a Bolivian isolated indigenous community fallen on hard times, striving to keep their culture alive
Making waves: Rajendra Singh
485 - September, 2015
Rajendra Singh is reviving Indian villages through traditional rainwater harvesting.
Worldbeaters: Avigdor Lieberman
495 - September, 2016
Israel’s defence minister is a political chameleon and lightning rod for controversy, among other things.
Is democracy in danger?
501 - April, 2017
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?
Country Profile: Honduras
496 - October, 2016
Hondurans are not searching for the American Dream, they are fleeing from the nightmare of violence and repression in their country.
