THE BIG STORY
Deadly trade: The arms trade is big, secretive and powerful. But we have the power to dismantle it.

Guns or diplomacy? The arms industry’s influence on global power.

Victory in defiance: How to kick one of the world’s biggest arms companies out of town.

Partners in power: How shared nationalist ideology and a booming arms trade formed a bond between the governments of India and Israel.

Eco-friendly fire: The arms industry’s greenwash.

One struggle: The arms trade is bad for both people and the planet. We need a global vision for demilitarized climate justice.

Armed to the brink: Arms continue to flow into Sudan amidst an acute crisis of violence and devastation.

CURRENTS
COP16 sidelines Indigenous voices
India: locals reclaim beach from tourists
A dispatch from Haiti in crisis
South America let out of HIV drug deal
Israel’s deportation campaign against activists
Kazakhstan’s shrinking lakes
Canada’s crackdown on climate activists
Valencia floods: the Right passes the buck

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala: Reflecting on a nation grappling with the murder of Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei by an ex-partner.

Country Profile: Mauritius the tiny Indian Ocean melting pot.

Cartoon History: Having told the story of Kenya’s Mau Mau anti-colonial rebellion in NI551, ILYA traces the key role of propaganda in this conflict - and examines how history is made.

Southern Exposure: You can almost feel the dust in this arresting photo of a labourer in a Bangladeshi brickfield.

Temperature Check: celebrating the end of UK coal, and exploring what can be learned for the future.

What if... the United States was abolished? Conrad Landin assesses whether breaking up the country would break up the empire.

Agony Uncle: Can stealing ever be right? Our Agony Uncle weighs up the merits of a novel form of ’resistance’ to unethical clothing brands.

COMMENT
View from India: Why AI isn’t working for women.

Sanitizing genocide: Aid appeals that portray Palestinians as victims of a nondescript natural disaster are the final straw for the ailing development sector.

View from Africa: Racism is allowing Black African workers to be left behind in Lebanon.

View from Brazil: X has slunk back to Brazil after Elon Musk’s very public standoff with the law. Other governments could learn from the debacle

FEATURES
They never came home: Kashmir’s ’half widows’ are left in limbo with their spouses disappeared. 

’I just want to get out’: The ongoing ’refugee crisis’ in Greece.

Forever Oil: An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Tracing the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields.