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

Novelist Rémy Ngamije reflects on the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI. In her first letter, Mariam Barghouti writes from the occupied West Bank city about a curious new ...

Long before today’s boom, synthetic language was already in circulation. In 1966 MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the ...

Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.

In the absence of facts and trusted sources of information, the AI-generated images and rhetoric of dictators circulate freely on a web increasingly breaking under the weight of slop. Only first-hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

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 ...

It was a movement that reverberated on campuses from Cape Town to Oxford. Musawenkosi Cabe speaks to activists who were part of the high-profile push to decolonize universities and challenge white ...

John Hilary on the obscenity of using images of starving children to raise funds. In June 1981, New Internationalist published ‘Merchants of Misery’, a seminal article by Danish aid worker Jorgen ...