Even a designer, keenly promoting graphite as an alternative to lithium, is unaware of the provenance of most of his favoured ...

As global demand soars, President Gabriel Boric hopes to increase Chile's lithium wealth. Vanessa Baird reports on how the fate of the country's culturally and environmentally rich salt flats is in ...

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal.

After 20 years of war, Northern Uganda could be on the verge of a deal to end the violence. But will it enable the region’s displaced and terrorized women and children to rebuild their lives? asks ...

Farewell cosmopolitan Britain – hail mean, delusional little England. Vanessa Baird responds to the referendum result.

The East European movements at Lab-Left emerged against the odds. On the one hand, the shadow of the Soviet bloc still looms ...

If their candidate wins, they’ll be the country's first female president, but not the first indigenous person to hold the office. Ryan Mallett-Outtrim reports.

Democratic regimes are thin on the ground in the Muslim world. *Abdelwahab El-Affendi* explores the reasons why.

Yet another idealistic comrade turned brutal dictator: Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki.

Another shock referendum result – this time in Colombia. Tatiana Garavito assesses the chances of ending the longest conflict in the western world.

In the face of the global far right’s dominance, Eastern Europe’s left movements offer lessons in resistance, writes Áron Rossman-Kiss.

Following the Glasgow Climate Pact, the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels still has a pulse, argue Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin – but only just.