Illustration: Andy Carter

What if...

We banned billionaires? Kathryn Zacharek muses on a world without the super-rich.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Brazil’s struggle to tax the super-rich. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Slopestyle philanthropy, by Husna Ara.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Illustration: Simon Kneebone

Wealth safari

Boom time for billionaires and the super-rich, by Vanessa Baird.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Inequality Watch

Inequality Watch

Royal wealth vs cost of ending homelessness.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Inequality Watch

Inequality Watch

Billionaires vs the pandemic.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Inequality Watch

Inequality Watch

Wealth inequality in South Africa.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Inequality Watch

Inequality Watch

Vaccine profits vs wealth inequality.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

What if we all got paid the same? Vanessa Baird on a simple but bold measure to reverse roaring income inequality.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Photo: Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

First-class lifeboats

The super-rich are preparing for doomsday. Only problem is, the rest of us aren’t invited. Tom Whyman explains.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019

Should religion play a role in politics?

From religious leaders who take on political roles to the daily influence of faith on political values, Dawn Foster and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – two practising believers – find themselves on opposite sides of the debate.

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NI 517 - Trade in Turmoil - January, 2019

Introducing... Imran Khan

For our rising new world leader segment, Richard Swift profiles the Oxford-educated former playboy cricketer, and now, Prime Minister of Pakistan.

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NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018
Andrés Manuel López Obrador or AMLO is Mexico's new leftist presidentIllustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Mexico has a new president, but can AMLO form a government for the many without taxing the wealthy.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Illustration: Saman Sarheng

Diplomats – who needs them?

Frances Guy makes a plea for traditional diplomacy in the age of the Trumpian tweet.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Photo: Tom Hilton (CC 2.0)

Pass me my tinfoil hat

Steve Parry considers the allure of conspiracy theories and flirts with going over to the dark side.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018

Mixed Media: Books

A Line in the River by Jamal Mahjoub; Political Tribes by Amy Chua; Building and Dwelling by Richard Sennett; Deport, Deprive, Extradite by Nisha Kapoor;

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

The obscenity of extreme wealth

Some people have so much money they don’t know what to do with it – while most of us scrimp and save just to get by. Mark Engler reflects on the vulgar reality of extreme wealth.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Photo: Jette Carr / Wikimedia

Introducing... João Lourenço

Angola has its first new president in nearly 40 years, but bringing change might prove difficult as long as the economy remains dependent on diamonds and oil. Richard Swift reports.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
Trade in Turmoil January, 2019
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
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