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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.

Nanjala Nyabola mourns the loss of Nairobi’s tree canopy and questions the expansion of cities.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable ecosystem to the brink.

While women in Argentina have won the right to abortion, in Brazil even child survivors of rape may be forced to give birth, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Summon the artists.

Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil.

Governments need to pull their weight.

Nilanjana Bhowmick despairs of India’s new religion; why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow.

You shall live; and you shall die. Leonardo Sakamoto examines his country’s necropolitics in the light of Black Lives Matter.

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

Nanjala Nyabola grapples with the challenge of misinformation and disinformation.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the deadly neglect of rural heartlands.

Leonardo Sakamoto on how the rich are responding to the pandemic.

Nanjala Nyabola questions why the West always has to put itself at the centre of the story.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the dangers of ignoring concerted anti-Muslim violence.

Leonardo Sakamoto on why black women are so active in fighting growing misogyny.

Confessions of a frequent flier by Nanjala Nyabola.

Tolerance in the most holy city by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

A war against indigenous people, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.