Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

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London Climate Action Week won’t be the launchpad for these mobilisations—but it can be a moment to regroup, refocus, and strengthen our resolve. As the week ends, the priority must be looking ahead: ...

‘It hurts to breathe, please don’t let me fall asleep. If I sleep I won’t be able to wake up again.’ These were the last words of 15-year old Álvaro Conrado, the first victim of a bullet in ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

From the perspective of these mid-century ambitions, Guyana’s independence was a chronicle of defeat. Just 133 days after his election as chief minister, Jagan was deposed by a British military coup, ...

Fish have outsized importance in Senegal, a nation of 16 million where as many as 1 in 6 people work in or around the industry. Fish is valued, culturally embedded and popular – star of the national ...

Putin’s gas tap. This vast human disaster begs the obvious, trillion-dollar question: why? For some the culprit for higher prices is clear. As former UK prime minister Boris Johnson put it: ‘We’re ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

'Punish' China. In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University. The US, he writes, ‘is preparing for a war with China, a ...