But Thiel is no mindless technocrat. He regards himself as a philosopher and intellectual heavy hitter, a champion of ...

Subi Shah speaks to DJ Ritu about the ‘Asian Underground’, women’s rights and the British honours system.

On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

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Guilt complex We feel guilty about what we do (flying, driving a car) and about what we don’t do (not making that demo, not recycling enough). *Adam Ma’anit* traces the roots of these feelings and ...

The future for the world can look bleak, dominated by technological and corporate power. But what if resistance to it won through? *Pat Mooney* tells a story illustrating how things might unfold ...

Inside Unilever's sustainability myth Company slogans and mantras claim it is getting closer to pair profit with sustainability, but facts and figures tell a very different story. Investigation by ...

It’s three months since the start of the civil society protests against the regime of Daniel Ortega – the once respected leader of the Sandinistas who overthrew the Somoza dynasty dictatorship that ...

But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...

G eorgetown, the capital city of Guyana, sits at the meeting-point of the Demerara River and the Atlantic Ocean. At dusk, men fish from a narrow concrete embankment that juts out beyond the land, ...

Throughout history, many of the world’s deadliest conflicts, particularly those in Africa, have been frozen out of the mainstream media. Perhaps the ultimate illustration of this is the war in and ...

The washing process began when a nun dropped the freshly soiled clothing onto the floor by the drain and brushed the largest chunks of human waste down the hole with a broom. Another nun dunked the ...