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For the third year in a row, Finland topped the UN's World Happiness Report in 2020. Credit: Kostiolavi/Pixabay

Finntopia

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explain how Finland has come to be so equal, peaceful and happy – and sketch out the lessons we might learn from its example.

Latest issue: January-February 2021

The biodiversity emergency

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo during their weekly demonstration to establish the fate of their disappeared children and grandchildren during the 1976-83 dictatorship. Credit: Julio Etchart/Majority World.

Massive foreign debts and an impoverished population are intensifying age-old conflicts over natural resources in this multicultural nation, writes Amy Booth.

When alcohol causes so much damage is it unethical to set up a brewery? Our Agony Uncle responds.

Malcolm Lewis on the latest releases in parallel cinema: The Mole Agent (El agente topo), directed and written by Maite Alberdi; African Apocalypse, directed and co-written by Rob Lemkin.

Nour Sokhon by Myriam Boulos

Louise Gray turns her attention to the anti-slavery musical activism of Tse Tse Fly Middle East.

Protesters chant slogans during the demonstration. Farmers of various states of the country marched on the street in support of the farmers  who are protesting against the central government's new farmer's agricultural laws. (Photo by Pradeep Gaur / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

With the government trying out a variety of ploys to derail the mass movement, Indian farmers are determined to resist until their demands are met. Tarun Gidwani explains why they have been forced to act.

ILYA sets ‘Apolitical Intellectuals’ to a modern tune, as he remembers the life of the Guatemalan revolutionary poet. 

ILYA sets ‘Apolitical Intellectuals’ to a modern tune, as he remembers the life of the Guatemalan revolutionary poet. 

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