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Elevating African cuisine. A selection of dishes cooked by pioneering Senegalese Chef Pierre Thiam. Photo: Sara Costa

Freedom food

Rebel chefs are on a mission to decolonize diets across sub-Saharan Africa. Kareem Arthur goes in search of new ingredients.

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Action & info

The topic is vast, the aspects covered in this issue limited, but there are many ways to take action on democracy.

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Citizens take part in the high-profile 2020 French climate assembly, whose proposals should help shape their country’s policies towards a zero-carbon future. Photo: Katrin Baumann

Defibrillating democracy

Rich Wilson and Claire Mellier explain how citizens’ assemblies have the potential to restart the beating heart of democracy.

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How we are gulled

We must be able to see the secret, algorithmic methods of Google, Facebook and other digital titans if we are to tackle disinformation and toxic polarization, says propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev.

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Opposite page: Activists in New York City protest against the influence of ‘dark money’ from the billionaire Koch brothers on many areas of political decision-making, including healthcare. Photo: Erik McGregor/Sipa USA/PA Images

Dark money

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

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The space invaders

Our privacy and freedom of thought is routinely and pervasively breached by the masters of surveillance capitalism. What is this doing to us as humans and to our democratic choices in life? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks to Vanessa Baird.

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Hadiya, in the red dress, appears at the Supreme Court in New Delhi to defend her marriage to her Muslim husband Shafin in one of India’s alleged ‘love jihad’ cases. Photo: Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times Via Getty

Love and other conspiracies

India is not short of divisive and harmful conspiracy theories. Now one, called ‘love jihad’, has been given legal teeth. Laxmi Murthy reports.

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Information and democracy - The Facts

We make our political judgements based on the information we get – and the internet is brimming with it. That can be part of the problem...

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A mural featuring a pro-Trump protester, self-styled QAnon ‘shaman’ Jacob Chansley, appeared in Tunbridge Wells, UK, a few days after the storming of the US Congress in Washington on 6 January. Photo: Karwai Tang/Wireimage/Getty

Democracy on the edge

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

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Spotlight: Tse Tse Fly Middle East

Louise Gray turns her attention to the anti-slavery musical activism of Tse Tse Fly Middle East.

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Mixed Media: Music

Mixed Media: Music

Freedom by Yvette Janine Jackson; Kologo by Alostmen.

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Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

The Mole Agent (El agente topo)  directed and written by Maite Alberdi; African Apocalypse directed and co-written by Rob Lemkin.

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Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic;  Untraceable  by Sergei Lebedev; How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm; Imagining Orwell by Julio Etchart.

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 Illustration: Marc Roberts

Only Planet

Trickle down, by Marc Roberts.

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The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

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Freedom food

Rebel chefs are on a mission to decolonize diets across sub-Saharan Africa. Kareem Arthur goes in search of new ingredients.

Kareem Arthur March, 2021 530 Preview
Action & info

The topic is vast, the aspects covered in this issue limited, but there are many ways to take action on democracy.

March, 2021 530 Preview
Defibrillating democracy

Rich Wilson and Claire Mellier explain how citizens’ assemblies have the potential to restart the beating heart of democracy.

Rich Wilson and Claire Mellier March, 2021 530 Read
How we are gulled

We must be able to see the secret, algorithmic methods of Google, Facebook and other digital titans if we are to tackle disinformation and toxic polarization, says propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev.

Peter Pomerantsev March, 2021 530 Preview
Dark money

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

Peter Geoghegan March, 2021 530 Preview
The space invaders

Our privacy and freedom of thought is routinely and pervasively breached by the masters of surveillance capitalism. What is this doing to us as humans and to our democratic choices in life? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks to Vanessa Baird.

Vanessa Baird March, 2021 530 Preview
Love and other conspiracies

India is not short of divisive and harmful conspiracy theories. Now one, called ‘love jihad’, has been given legal teeth. Laxmi Murthy reports.

Laxmi Murthy March, 2021 530 Preview
Information and democracy - The Facts

We make our political judgements based on the information we get – and the internet is brimming with it. That can be part of the problem...

March, 2021 530 Preview
Democracy on the edge

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

Vanessa Baird March, 2021 530 Preview
Spotlight: Tse Tse Fly Middle East

Louise Gray turns her attention to the anti-slavery musical activism of Tse Tse Fly Middle East.

Louise Gray January, 2021 529 Read
Mixed Media: Music

Freedom by Yvette Janine Jackson; Kologo by Alostmen.

January, 2021 529 Read
Mixed Media: Film

The Mole Agent (El agente topo)  directed and written by Maite Alberdi; African Apocalypse directed and co-written by Rob Lemkin.

January, 2021 529 Preview
Mixed Media: Books

Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic;  Untraceable  by Sergei Lebedev; How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm; Imagining Orwell by Julio Etchart.

January, 2021 529 Preview
Only Planet

Trickle down, by Marc Roberts.

Marc Roberts January, 2021 529 Preview
The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

January, 2021 529 Preview