Amitav Ghosh has used his storytelling prowess to outline the historical and political roots of climate change within systems of power and oppression.
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For the first time in 80 years, Karl Polanyi’s magnum opus has been published in the UK.
Whether you’re a reporter, a teacher or a nurse, it’s becoming more difficult to find meaning in your work.
Girl mossing’s proponents are chiefly young women posting forest selfies and embracing natural processes of renewal and decay.
The founders saw a need for government to intervene in markets.
Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help replace traditional growth measures like GDP?
Storyselling, unlike narration, attempts to eradicate uncertainty. It cannot perform the important task of imagining the future.
A new book, The Exhausted Earth, outlines how capitalism leads to burnout - for people and planet. But regenerative solutions are possible if people focus on interconnectedness, not isolation.
A world where the US has fewer allies would be an even more dangerous place.
Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
Western hostility towards China reflects the grudging realization that the West may not be the pinnacle of achievement after all.
Argentina is already feeling the sting of its new president’s policies – but Javier Milei is pressing ahead with ever-more radical plans to overhaul the economy.
Argentine society is responding strongly to Javier Milei’s radical policies.
Corporate medicine is hijacking feminist narratives around empowerment and women’s rights to market technologies, tests and treatments that aren’t backed by evidence.
Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?
In his essays, Walter Benjamin sought to understand the nature of modernity. He drew on Marxism but was not contained by it, ranging across literature, art, popular culture, even Jewish mysticism.
What does capitalism do to our ability to connect with other people? Lydia Davis’ stories suggest it hollows out our words – but that the exaltation of the ordinary can connect us.
Traditional capitalists are still flourishing, but according to Yanis Varoufakis they are not driving the economy like they used to.
The Ukraine war’s impact on food insecurity is critical, but there is more to the picture. The main problem is that capitalism allows food and other basic needs to become precarious commodities.
An installation at Tate Modern and two other shows in London are cementing the artist’s global reputation.
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