Politics

The fact-checking industry is booming. But how effective is it? Samira Sawlani explores its role in the digital age and assesses its powers and limitations in tackling the flood of disinformation polluting our media ecosystem.

Disinformation can undermine elections, pose risks to public health and stoke division and violence against minorities. Words by Paula Lacey.

In Peru, a group of Indigenous women living in isolated communities have been determined in fighting for the rights of their river, including winning a ground-breaking lawsuit. Stephanie Boyd reports.

Attacks on journalists and press freedom are intensifying around the world. These snapshots from Slovakia, Nigeria, Fiji, Palestine and Kashmir take a closer look at media workers’ struggles and successes during this period of heightened hostility against journalism.

Though it now holds elections, the Philippines is still far from a functioning democracy, and remains under the yoke of US neo-imperialism. Agatha Canape profiles the National Democratic movement leading the struggle.

Amid a widening consciousness of climate change and the decline of traditional social democratic parties, green politics has grown across the Global North. But can green parties really deliver progressive change? By Coll McCail.

The Movement Towards Socialism has proved an enduring force in Bolivian politics, in spite of multiple setbacks. Olivia Arigho Stiles traces its history.

Membership, election year, and party types around the world.

Yanis Varoufakis explores how we can transform debt from ball and chain to an enabler of shared prosperity.

Report on Spain's democracy by Alessio Perrone.

The threats and promises game by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Tansy E Hoskins and Matthew Wilson discuss the tensions – or not – between individual action and system change.

Rivers cross political borders without so much as a ‘by your leave’. Which can cause some sticky situations for the humans who depend on them, as Yali Banton-Heath explains.

Our deep desire for change is continually thwarted by the limiting political choices on offer. Political theorist and philosopher Neil Vallely digs into the roots of apathy and polarization.

We took money out of politics? Frank Fornby shares his vision for better representation.

Idiocy coated in patriotic self-righteousness courtesy of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Will Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Castros’ hand-picked successor, wield a new broom of change? Wayne Ellwood weighs up the island’s options.

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

Lula is back in the game. After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

A poem by Otto René Castillo.