Columns / Currents
Articles about Currents, ordered by date. 
Reasons to be Cheerful
Feminist Pharma; Solidarity vindicated; Grounded.
Lithium and losses
As Ghana courts the green transition with its first lithium mine, farmers in Cape Coast say the promised boom has already delivered dispossession, delay and deepening poverty. Amanda Sperber reports.
Paper trail
From Berlin’s Stasi files to Aleppo’s courtrooms, Syria’s fragile reckoning with decades of repression hinges on rescuing the paper trail before memory – and justice – slips away. Paul Hefel-James reports.
Introducing... Rodrigo Paz Pereira
Bolivia’s traditional political class president. By Richard Swift.
Colonial Echoes
From Shëngjin to Gjadër, Italy’s offshore detention centres in Albania revive colonial shadows as Europe pushes its borders – and its responsibilities – ever further from view. Dalia Ismail reports.
Rights reversal
With José Antonio Kast poised to govern, Chilean activists warn that promises of order and austerity mask a looming rollback of human, Indigenous and women’s rights hard won since the Pinochet era. Ali Qassim reports.
Celebrating 2976
As Morocco embraces Amazigh identity in law and symbol, mountain communities marking Yennayer say recognition rings hollow without justice for land, language and livelihoods. Peter Yeung reports.
Killer tunes?
From Chicago drill to narcocorridos, a new report argues that blaming music for gun crime obscures the deeper injustices – poverty, racism and weak gun laws – that pull the trigger. Amy Hall reports.
Briefly
Patagonia in flames; Unlikely allies; Catch me if you can; ‘Vegas-ification’ of Gaza; Journalism under fire; Freedom for the Filton.
Kurds Betrayed
After years as Washington’s frontline ally against Isis, Syria’s Kurds find themselves abandoned to a resurgent central state and a former jihadist now recast as president. Zac Larkham reports.
Temple Under Siege
Half a century after US bombs fell on Cambodia, nationalist brinkmanship has reignited a border war with Thailand, driving civilians from their homes and reducing Preah Vihear’s ancient stones to rubble. Rodrigo Rosales reports.
Reasons to be Cheerful
Healthy starts; Post office payout; The big red apple.
Biafra’s struggle
As Nigeria cracks down on pro-Biafra protests, arrests and police violence are reviving a long-suppressed struggle over marginalization, memory and self-determination in the South East. Report by Adetokunbo Abiola.
Hiding to survive
As Malaysia tightens detention operations, Rohingya genocide survivors are being driven into hiding, treated as criminals rather than protected as refugees. Report by Rohim Ullah.
Introducing... Catherine Connolly
Ireland’s new president Catherine Connolly, a socialist independent with a record of principled dissent at home and abroad, has united a fractured left and unsettled the political establishment.
Rights reversed
As Canada criminalizes Indigenous land defence in the name of growth and trade, hard-won rights are being quietly rolled back. Report by Changiz M Varzi.
Storms and siege
Hurricane Melissa spared Haiti a direct hit, but in a country hollowed out by gang rule and state collapse, even a glancing blow proved deadly. Report by Harold Isaac.
Deadly precedent
As Kyrgyzstan flirts with restoring the death penalty, activists warn that political expediency is trumping justice – and setting a perilous precedent for rights across the region. Report by Gabriella Jozwiak.
Up in arms
As Poland hosts a major arms fair, critics warn Europe is profiting from weapons marketed as "battle-tested" on the bodies of Gaza’s civilians. Report by Alma Selvaggia Rinaldi.
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