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Does it matter that Google, Facebook and Amazon are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.

Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

Everybody wants your private data. Bruce Schneier on how surveillance has become the business model of the internet.

Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make a film there in 1985.

For all the fancy packaging, many of our gadgets have nothing to do with capitalist success stories. Bob Hughes explains.

It’s in the air – and calling for a mindset reset. Vanessa Baird tracks the course of transgender rights and their liberating potential for us all.

After 54 years of struggle under Indonesian rule, is freedom finally in sight for West Papua? Danny Chivers investigates.

We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege, writes Mark Engler.

What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

Connor Woodman reveals the ties that bind transnational mining companies to the Indonesian occupation.

The political landscape may seem particularly bleak at present. But, if we stand back and look at the bigger picture, the dominance of rightwing populists and neoliberal policies is likely to be a temporary blip. The evidence is mounting that greater economic equality benefits all people in all societies, whether you are rich, poor or in-between. Once this is widely understood, politicians and policymakers will be forced to take note, as Danny Dorling explains.

It happens every year: thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest are torched to clear land for palm oil, timber and other agribusiness operations. It’s a perfect storm of destruction. Nithin Coca reports from Sumatra.