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Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff

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Colombia Protests. Illustration: Zach

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Colombia Protests by Zach (Philippines)

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 Illustration: Sarah John

A bloody business

Iris Gonzales reflects on a violent national obsession that has only grown under coronavirus restrictions.

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 Illustration: Sarah John

When we bury the truth

Iris Gonzales reflects on the human cost of the state’s war against its critics.

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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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 Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

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Keeping the world cared for

Keeping the world cared for

Three workers tell their stories. Interviews by Iris Gonzales, Audrey Simango, and Jada Steuart.

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Albertina is 15 and the oldest of three sisters. When her mother died she took over responsibility for raising her younger siblings. Now she wants to become a nurse. Photo: Chris de Bode/Panos

The hidden debt of care

Covid-19 has pushed the world’s caregivers to the limit and beyond. Amy Hall explains how their work continues to be undermined and undervalued.

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 Illustration: Pete Reynolds

Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

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Young Rio favela residents, part of the grassroots Marcha das Favelas group, organize mutual aid to make up for the absence of the Brazilian state in tackling the crisis. Photo: Ellan Lustosa / Zuma / Alamy

Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020. Photo: Feisal Omar/Reuters

Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

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 Photo: Ryoji-Iwata/Unsplash

Hitting the population brakes

Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just how wrong that is – and argues that we are actually in a time of slowdown.

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 Illustration: Yeyei Gómez

Who’s the thief?

Tax havens in the Global North enable the systematic looting of the Global South. John Christensen explains how their activities impoverish the world.

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 Illustration: Nick Taylor

Open borders, 2050

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

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A Filipino worker in a Lebanese household shows a picture of her daughter, whom she hasn't seen in years. Photo: Matthew Cassel

No place to hide

Will shaming employers on social media finally bring justice for Lebanon’s domestic workers? Roshan De Stone and David Suber report from Beirut.

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Article title Description Author Published Magazine Link
Mixed Media: Books

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff

July, 2021 532 Preview
Open window

Colombia Protests by Zach (Philippines)

Zach July, 2021 532 Preview
A bloody business

Iris Gonzales reflects on a violent national obsession that has only grown under coronavirus restrictions.

Iris Gonzales July, 2021 532 Preview
When we bury the truth

Iris Gonzales reflects on the human cost of the state’s war against its critics.

Iris Gonzales May, 2021 531 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
What if…

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

November, 2020 528 Preview
Keeping the world cared for

Three workers tell their stories. Interviews by Iris Gonzales, Audrey Simango, and Jada Steuart.

November, 2020 528 Preview
The hidden debt of care

Covid-19 has pushed the world’s caregivers to the limit and beyond. Amy Hall explains how their work continues to be undermined and undervalued.

Amy Hall October, 2020 528 Preview
Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

Hazel Healy and Mohamed Camara September, 2020 527 Preview
Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

Vanessa Baird September, 2020 527 Preview
Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

Husna Rizvi July, 2020 526 Preview
Hitting the population brakes

Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just how wrong that is – and argues that we are actually in a time of slowdown.

Danny Dorling May, 2020 525 Read
Who’s the thief?

Tax havens in the Global North enable the systematic looting of the Global South. John Christensen explains how their activities impoverish the world.

John Christensen March, 2020 524 Preview
Open borders, 2050

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

Alex Sager January, 2020 523 Preview
No place to hide

Will shaming employers on social media finally bring justice for Lebanon’s domestic workers? Roshan De Stone and David Suber report from Beirut.

Roshan De Stone and David Suber September, 2019 521 Preview