If democracy is indeed “government of the people, for the people and by the people,” then legislators must provide more transparency on the extent to which the governance of people is currently being outsourced to machines.

Since the Assad regime fell in December 2025, Europe’s 1.4 million Syrian refugees have been navigating the legal, emotional and security challenges of going back to a country they thought they may never see again.

Across Europe, Latin American women are coming together in myriad networks of mutual support, to face down isolation, exploitation and inadequate public services.

Morocco’s drought-flood chaos is fueling a storm of cloud seeding conspiracies.

A migrant-led movement has used tactics from theatre to unionization to demand equal rights and dignity for those doing society’s most undervalued labor. They’ve appealed to the highest levels of EU justice and achieved major legal reforms. Yet perhaps their biggest triumph is an ongoing movement for social change powered by intersectional solidarity and care.

In Bamenda, the capital of Northwest Cameroon, a physical reminder of the Anglophone Crisis is visible on the streets: uncollected trash. Residents must navigate sights and smells that deter business, threaten their health, and increase the risks of environmental damage. But some are fighting back.

Plans for Europe’s largest open-pit gold mine in Romanian commune Roșia Montană galvanized all layers of Romanian society, from villagers to presidents. The two-decade fight against a project that aimed to erase four mountains and three villages has radical social and political consequences.

As Europe offshores border control to Libya – where horrific human rights abuses have been well documented – migrants too have been joining forces between North Africa and Italy, in a unified movement for safety and recognition under international law.

With El Salvador’s disturbing prison deal with the US in the spotlight, Lya Cuéllar takes a look back at how her country has fared under the self-styled “World’s Coolest Dictator.”

“It’s just like a prison, but worse,” says Omar. “You don’t know when you’ll be out. You can’t do anything all day. You don’t even have your personal room. You feel crushed.”

Forty years after the fall of Uruguay’s military dictatorship, the families of the disappeared are still demanding answers. Slowly but surely – through alliances that span politics, forensics, law, history and anthropology – they are casting light into the darkest recesses of their country’s past, in hope of a brighter future.

Before industrialized farming conquered the continent, the crops that fed Europe were adaptable varieties that evolved as peasants freely exchanged seeds, from harvest to sowing, generation after generation. Reviving these seed systems could protect our food supply from future climate shocks – if EU regulations don’t strangle them out completely.