DECCA: For Ramzy, guest editing this issue was highly personal.

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 ...

Despite the latest ‘ceasefire’, Israel’s genocide and engineered famine continues to devastate Gaza. This magazine confronts ...

Anti-abortion campaigners have their sights set on Ethiopia – a progressive outlier in a region marred by restrictions. Who’s behind the emboldened ‘pro-life’ movement and what’s at stake for women’s ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

Equality matters in terms of health and happiness, but surprising new data reveals that it is also better for the environment – in the more equal rich countries, people on average consume less, ...

Marta Vidal speaks with the Palestinian militant about the role of violence in the struggle for a better world. Leila Khaled is the first known woman to lead an airplane hijacking. Her portrait as a ...

Ian Curtis and Joy Division stand out. Not least because their music portrayed emotions, sorrows and terrors in a way that most popular music never comes within a country mile of and because Ian ...

Nick Dowson asks where the global inflation crisis has come from and sketches some people-first solutions. Debt crises are back with a vengeance as the dollar goes from strength to strength and ...

Israel is at the forefront of the booming spyware industry that threatens human rights, press freedom and democracy worldwide. An Israeli soldier puts her hand under a mini drone in Beersheba, a city ...

As COP28 winds down, Hamza Hamouchene sounds the alarm about the dark side of climate capitalism. It now has another claim to fame however, as just six miles away from the town is one of the biggest ...