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Can fuel crops ever be sustainable? Danny Chivers gives us the lowdown.

From wood to algae, biofuels have been around for years. But they're not necessarily all they're cracked up to be. Danny Chivers has the low-down.

Gender activist Gary Barker sees young men who respect woman and are connected fathers.

As society becomes more tolerant of homosexuality, men find the freedom to be emotionally open and physically tactile with each other, explain Mark McCormack and Eric Anderson.

Uri Gordon offers insight into what anarchism – a word bandied about carelessly by the press – really means.

Politicians in the US and Australia play the anti-immigration card.

Ten years after fleeing his home country, Jean Kayigamba makes an emotional return.

Extremists have been making inroads across Europe with a sanitized version of some very dirty politics. K Biswas looks into the heart of the beast.

How do you respond to people in climate denial? Danny Chivers offers a step-by-step guide to rebutting the most common arguments against climate change.

Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.

An epic migration to the cities has been responsible for China’s turbocharged economic performance. But, as Richard Swift explains, the cost for many workers has been too great and they refuse to be quiet any longer.

Three personal stories of the battles being fought for workers’ rights.

As the ripples of rebellion spread through the Arab world, what’s next for democracy?

Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.

Electronics giant Foxconn employs over a million people in China – in conditions that drive them to despair, reports Jenny Chan.

Esme McAvoy is in the Amazon to find out what’s happening to the Yasuní proposal.

Cartoonist Polyp explores conspiracy theories and finds them not just dotty but dangerous.

The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.

India may be one of the world’s current economic ‘winners’ but inequality is its fastest-growing sector, reveals Jaideep Hardikar.

Dirty cash and dirty tricks – our rogues’ gallery of lobbyists who get governments to dance to their tune.