Disinformation. Polarization. And flat denial of election results. Democracy seems to be in trouble today. But are these death throes - or perhaps growing pains? Issue 530 of New Internationalist 'Democracy on the edge' is out on newsstands now.

Also in this issue: Kareem Arthur interviews the rebel chefs on a mission to decolonize diets across sub-Saharan Africa, and Indian doctor Neil Singh reflects on the damning global shortage of health workers. Subscribe to read now: https://bit.ly/3r7vBRE

'They are oppressed in the name of conservation, when the people who live in Manu are the ones who have cared for this forest for thousands of years.'