THE BIG STORY
Entering the Matrix: The digital age has increased the potency and complexity of misinformation. To tackle it, we need a systemic response

Red Letter Day: In 1924 an infamous document brought down Britain’s first Labour governmentit was a forgery. Conrad Landin looks at the ongoing legacy of the Zinoviev letter, an early example of fake news.

Big Whoppers: Our online spaces are rapidly transforming into cesspits of lies. With disinformation campaigns aplenty, Paula Lacey puts four egregious cases under the magnifying glass.

The Philippines Disinformation Machine: the sophisticated networks of digital strategists, paid influencers and young workers fueling the Philippines flourishing disinformation industry.

Dying in the passive voice: Through a powerful series of illustrations, Mona Chalabi exposes how the mainstream media distorts the truth around Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Fact Checkers to the rescue? How effective is fact-checking at tackling disinformation?

CURRENTS
Serbia: The EU’s dirty lithium deal: Autocratic Serbian President is ignoring widespread domestic opposition and push through legislation allowing the controversial lithium extraction to begin.

Iran wages war on VPNs: VPN use has become so prevalent in Iran that it has generated a multi-million dollar market of providers.

Will Zimbabwe ditch the death penalty? Stakes are high for capital punishment in Zimbabwe with a death penalty abolition bill in motion

Tajikistan: Pamiri minority faces silent crisis: President Rahmon has systematically dismantled the power-sharing agreement that ended the country’s civil war in 1997, eroding the autonomy promised to the Pamiris with frequent military offensives.

Military radar station threatens rural Wales: The Pembrokeshire Against Radar Campaign (PARC) cites a range of concerns, including disruption of the landscape, damage to wildlife and tourism industries and potential health risks of living near one of the highest radiation projects ever built on British soil.

Tanzania silences the Maasai: Tanzania’s government is under increasing scrutiny for excluding Maasai pastoralists ahead of November local elections, effectively disenfranchising some 40,000 voters in the country’s north.

King Charles vs Australia’s First Nations: High-ranking officials including King Charles are granted legal immunity while the Attorney General has unchecked power to block genocide cases from proceeding in the country’s courts.

Surrogacy rights for all India: India’s new surrogacy regime discriminates on the basis of gender and marital status, according to a new public interest petition.

COMMENT
Beyond Apartheid: One democratic state for Palestinians and Israelis is the only viable and just solution

View from India: With millions killed by air pollution every year, meaningful action is long overdue

View from Africa: Young people in Uganda are using traditional nude protest to fight their generation’s battles

View from Brazil: As fires rage across Brazil, local candidates squabble over Maduro and Hamas

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala: a memorable visit to a small, relatively isolated, Jewish community in the hilltops of eastern Uganda.

Country Profile: Haiti: The echoes of the 1804 revolution, which saw Haiti overthrow French colonial rule, still resonate with the struggles of its people today

Cartoon History: the Chartists, a 19th-century movement in Britain which inspired rebels
across the globe.

Southern Exposure: Gordwin Odhiambo captures children using a makeshift net for a ball game in Ngong forest, Nairobi.

The Interview: Anoosheh Ashoori speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about how he survived Iran’s notorious Evin prison.

Temperature Check: the push to stop the world’s forests being used for fuel.

Hall of Infamy: Javier Milei: Argentina’s ’anarcho-capitalist’ leader is a dream come true for the rich and powerful.

Agony Uncle: Is it okay to set your ethical lifestyle choices aside to avoid conflict with your grandmother?

FEATURES
Love and Sacrifice: As he turns 80, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado looks back on his illustrious career

The battle for Biafra’s soul: the growing violence in a region still struggling for independence from Nigeria.

Is the freeze over? why geopolitical tensions over Antarctica could have a wider impact.
Women’s Agency in War: in eastern Congo women and girls face the brunt of violence. Sophie Neiman tells their stories of resilience.