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

In today’s major global conflicts – in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan – the UN’s role has largely been in the area of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this page you can explore every past issue of New Internationalist magazine, going back all the way to 1973.

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 ...

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in many Indian cities. A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The ...

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 ...

The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered. Britain must face up to this crime, says Jason Hickel.

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

They’re either Libyans or migrants but all of them have at least one thing in common: they’re black. It’s a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports ...