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Sovereignty as a shroud, by Rosebell Kagumire.

As displacement redraws Beirut’s faultlines, sectarian mistrust is deepening – but new solidarities are taking root. By Paul Hefel-James.

The world's youngest prime minister of Nepal.

Conservation breakthrough; Wee growth; Overdue.

Aid cuts are leaving eastern Congo dangerously exposed as a new Ebola outbreak spreads amid conflict and collapsing health defences. By Amy Hall.

South Africa’s post-apartheid promise is fading as Black migrants become scapegoats for the country’s deepening inequality. By Obiora Ikoku.

From Sri Lanka to France, a spirit of revolt has echoed across the world in recent years. The Peoples’ Want, a global committee of organizers and revolutionaries, examine what makes an uprising successful and argue that the only answer is a new politics of unity based in internationalism.

In northern Norway the fight is on to save Sámi culture, and a precious ecosystem, from copper mining. Dominik Sipinski reports.

Tycoons like Musk may want us to believe it’s ok for them to trash the planet in service to dreams of space, but there’s no Planet B, astronomer Lucian Walkowicz writes.

Researcher Peter Howson reports on how the global scramble for new space launch sites is harming people – from Indonesia to the Sámi homelands of Scandinavia.

Economy; Sent to space; Space and genocide; Toxic emissions.

As space becomes an increasingly vital arena for war, William J Astore tracks its increased militarization.

A new space race is set to worsen global inequality and extend conflict. We need to return to seeing space as a place for all humankind, argues Nick Dowson.

Words by Graeme Green.

A mythical history of the female body turns scholarly material into a thrilling narrative – but makes a few too many leaps of faith. By Orla Polten.