JULY 30. 2025

Will Gaza Ever Know a Real Ceasefire, or Just a Pause Before the Next Bomb?

What does hope mean when your city is flattened and everyone you know is slowly starving?

The Philippine Missile Crisis: U. S. Deployed Arms to the Philippines and No One Noticed But China

The U. S. deployment of missiles in the Philippines is an escalation that has angered China and could come back to bite Filipinos most of all.

International Law Now Demands Climate Action—and It’s Actually a Huge Deal

The International Court of Justice’s landmark ruling shifts the obligation of climate action from moral appeal to legal duty.

GIJN Reporting Guide for Landfill Methane Emissions and Solutions

This GIJN guide offers reporting best practices, key resources as well as what questions to ask when investigating methane emissions from landfills and how to reduce them.

JULY 29. 2025

Welcome to the future of dating

A whole new wave of apps offers a whole new world of opportunity

Alastair Campbell’s diary: My date with Ghislaine Maxwell

If you had said to me then she might end up attached to a powerful man, able to build and exploit connections wherever he found them, I could well have seen how it may happen

We’ve been living in a fantasy world for centuries

The meanings of fancy and fantasy have diverged rather considerably over the centuries, just as the spellings have also changed

Mussolini’s secret bunker

Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there

The parallel geography of violence in Mexico

In Sinaloa, the threat of death and chaos hangs in the air as the brutal cartel war shows little sign of abating

Hear the paintings sing: the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray

The Aboriginal artist’s vibrant works celebrate ancestral land, culture and a deep connection to nature

Letter of the week: Why Starmer must be tougher with the media

Write to letters@thenewworld. co. uk to have your views voiced in the magazine

Gore Vidal, the man who lived for verbal jousting

An unashamed member of the educated liberal elite, he parlayed his wit and access into a career of TV interviews and debates

Sandie Peggie and the dangers of gender groupthink

A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

Farage’s firestarter politics

A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

Grand designs: Britain’s forgotten housing revolution

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right

Why we need to be more chill about language change

It appears that our vocabulary is entrained with the Zeitgeist, whether we like it or not

The revenge of Alice Cooper

As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

War in the quiet hours

Russia has intensified its aerial assault on Kyiv. One night may pass in relative calm, giving a fragile sense of normality. The next, destruction starts again

Wrapped in resistance: the story of the sari

The sari is given a radical reimagining in a bold Birmingham exhibition

The dwindling town of Srebrenica

Thirty years on, the genocide is remembered annually, but locals feel forgotten and struggle with ongoing division