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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026
A little good news and plenty of bad in this year's flagship report
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On Rosa Luxemburg's Herbarium
Claudia Horn's new edition with O/R is a thing of wonder
Jul 20
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Towards That Endless Plain
For the weekend: Reza Vali's Concerto for Persian Ney
Jul 10
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Ask anyone whose gods had to travel here below decks
Celebrating America's 250th with an appreciation of Cain Culto x Sudan Archives' KFC Santería
Jul 3
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June 2026
Guest Post: Xenophobia Paves the Dangerous Road Ahead
Today's the day that far-right groups have given as a deadline for migrants to leave South Africa. Richard Pithouse's explainer is required reading.
Jun 30
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The Cloud Atlas, or, Is Data the Master's Tool? Part 3
Three kinds of cloud atlas help pin down, finally, a position on data and Big tech
Jun 28
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Gaëtan Vanloqueren on Food Social Security
If you prefer your discussions about food social security live and improvised on Zoom, you're in luck.
Jun 25
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Guest Post: Is our demand for smartphones and semiconductors making Ebola worse?
Sonia Shah's Cross Pollinations newsletter is a fund of razor-sharp writing and political ecological analysis. Support her work (and read her books!)
Jun 23
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Hamba kahle* Abdullah Ibrahim
A farewell to a South African jazz legend
Jun 20
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Belfast-on-the-Indian-Ocean
Ten thousand Malawians languish in a park in Durban amid xenophobic violence. The similarities with the horrors in Belfast aren't accidental.
Jun 17
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Lone Star Ticks and Checks
New World Screw Worm meet Alpha-gal syndrome
Jun 9
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Where the danger lies
In memoriam, Edgar Morin, 1921–2026, inventor of the term 'polycrisis'
Jun 5
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