In an increasingly hostile environment, activism and coalition-building across the region persists. As the US under Trump ...

Addis is a city at a crossroads. A massive redevelopment project is reshaping Ethiopia’s capital into what Prime Minister ...

Decca Muldowney makes the case for an urgent challenge to AI’s power and the fake images boosting the rhetoric of dictators. To combat it we need a robust media to combat misinformation and its ...

Imagery generated by artificial intelligence has become the beloved aesthetic of today’s dictators, argues Decca Muldowney. A robust media is needed to combat misinformation and its miseries. It was a ...

Is AI really an unstoppable force? Paula Lacey unpicks the complex web of companies, investments, and ideologies behind the ‘bubble’. ‘Artificial intelligence’ is not a singular innovation, but a term ...

Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance. In March 2018, an Uber self-driving car struck and killed ...

Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in West Papua, while new research shows the extent of the UK’s involvement in an occupation that has been described as ...

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 ...

Adverts gleam with promises of transformation and transcendence – via material objects. Jean Kilbourne decodes this gigantic propaganda effort. A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...