On World Food Day we think about the food we eat and the people who don’t have access to it. Let’s test your knowledge of food issues. Ripe vegetables on a gray table. (Illustration by LightFieldStudios from Getty Images) The 16th of October marks...
Young people are rising up in France. Swing your gaze further and you’ll see them rising up in India, Morocco, Kenya, Peru and more, too. Let’s take a look. Students in Paris holding signs reading, “No fascism at home” and “More funding...
Devices keep us connected. But can we connect to the communities whose lives are upended in making those devices? A group of artists and activists show us how. Participants in a social experiment session in Lubumbashi, DRC that was put together by Collectif Cobalt, a...
Some promising new drugs have been shown to prevent new HIV infections. But for now, it seems, they go only to countries that can pay. Activists protest the limited access to lenacapavir in front of pharmaceutical company Gilead’s booth at AIDS 2026 in Rio in...
Wars are being fought by drones controlled by human operators thousands of miles away. What happens when we take the human out of that picture? Three different types of unmanned weaponry. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for News...
A new massive exhibition by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei asks us to reflect: What are the costs of mass production and global trade? A giant raft filled with refugees all made of polyurethane at Factory International at Aviva Studios in Manchester, England, part...
As Indigenous people in Peru harvest stories of their past tied to the rubber industry, governments and corporations find that history isn’t easy to erase. The Iron House or Casa de Fierro in Iquitos, bought in Paris and reassembled by a rubber baron in 1890....
We document the dark times in our past so that later generations will know what happened. How else can we ensure they won’t happen again? Demonstrators carry a banner with photos of people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in a march...
The Spanish government has been a vocal critic of the U.S. war on Iran. But it has yet to reckon with its own imperialistic past and present. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez speaks at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía on 8 January 2025, in Madrid to...
While the world looks away, a war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has lasted for decades is getting worse. And it is being fought by children. A child soldier in Eastern Congo. (Photo courtesy of Voice of America) This article was produced out of News...