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Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

Latest issue: September-October 2020

Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic

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Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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Colombian technocrat Iván Duque Márquez is not exactly a fan of peace.

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How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa.

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Leonardo Sakamoto reflects on the police killing of João Pedro Matos Pinto, a 14-year-old black boy, and one of many Brazilian George Floyds.

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