Features

Faced with monumental change, we all tend to convince ourselves that our lives will continue unscathed. In the first of our new series, with picks from the New Internationalist archive, we go back to 1990 when Anuradha Vittachi explained why, in the case of climate change, denial – that basic human trait – could bring about our downfall.

Art does not simply reflect the world – but frames and shapes our future. A meditation by the Raqs Media Collective.

Wales is pioneering a law supposed to ensure that public organizations protect future generations, as well as the living. Rebecca Wilks explores the results so far.

Nick Dowson looks to the future of democracy – and considers how we can make it our own.

The ghost of Dinyar Godrej looks back from 2073 to see how personal revolutions built a society that is truly social.

Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates.

Fungi have been touted as an alternative to plastics – but it’s dangerous to see them solely as a product, argues Emma McKeever.

The pandemic years were the pivot for a rapid shift bringing a better new world into being. Andrew Simms travels through time.

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.

A former child soldier in the ferocious Lord’s Resistance Army has been on trial for war crimes in Uganda for 13 years. Meanwhile thousands of other fighters have been welcomed home under amnesty legislation. Sophie Neiman visits Gulu to find out how this contentious case is failing the LRA’s victims.

Those seeking justice for the survivors and victims of Bolivia’s dictatorships are still being stonewalled. Thomas Graham reports.

Over the past 50 years, powerful states and corporations have imposed neoliberal policies around the world, delivering a potent cocktail of privatization, deregulation and cuts to public services. Millions have died from inadequate access to basic nutrition. There is another way, write Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel.

Climate disasters and fossil fuel dependency are ramping up the cost of living crisis. Marianne Brooker looks at the solutions that are there for the making.

Spain’s human shields against evictions, by Luke Stobart.

Words by Nick Dowson.

The mass protests of 2020-21 in India showed the world what solidarity in action can look like.

Price hikes are leaving many in Sierra Leone unable to even afford food. Alessio Perrone reports.

Boom time for billionaires and the super-rich, by Vanessa Baird.

As the International Monetary Fund keeps pushing austerity, Zambian journalist Zanji Valerie Sinkala explores whether that’s really a solution to her country’s economic woes.

How Bolivians beat a corporate water grab.