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In the lead story from our May-June 2023 issue, Zoe Holman looks at how the so-called ‘peace process’ has allowed Israel to deepen its colonial project over Palestinian lives.

Author and journalist Mark Lynas and researcher and writer Claire Robinson go head-to-head.

The award-winning author, poet and activist considers herself above all a daughter of the Earth, as she explains to Frank Barat.

Paul Rogers says the growing influence of home-grown and foreign fundamentalists makes a negotiated settlement even more urgent.

They may be losing popularity in Gaza, but Hamas are a force to be reckoned with – even by Israel. Louisa Waugh reports.

X has slunk back to Brazil after Elon Musk’s very public standoff with the law. Other governments could learn from the debacle, argues Leonardo Sakamoto.

The musician, activist and former child soldier gives a sombre assessment of life in South Sudan two years after independence.

Luke Dale-Harris reports on the ongoing battle to improve the rights of disabled people locked away in secretive Romanian institutions.

Nick Dowson dismantles the notion that the private sector does things better.

Despite populism being rife everywhere else, Japan has refused to succumb. Are there lessons to be learned? asks Tina Burrett.