It should now be clear to everyone that the year 2026 will be marked by the march of the far right further into the ...

A Tanzanian poet reflects on her country's president winning our annual poll of despots against fierce competition ...

Index talks to the people behind a new monument honouring UK-based newsgatherers who lost their lives whilst reporting around the globe ...

New employment rules spell victory for Zelda Perkins, former assistant to the disgraced film producer and who was awarded a ...

Since Meta changed its rules, the Purple Slut cabaret has had its accounts repeatedly taken down because of community ...

China’s economy still has extraordinary bright spots, particularly in tech. Its supply chains of rare earth minerals, ...

The Cyberspace Administration of China has launched another one of its regular Clear and Bright campaigns ...

In the latest of our Letters from Afghan Women, a young woman opens up about keeping hope alive despite threats to her life ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

Zoomers – the young people born between 1997 and 2012 – have been taking to the streets this summer. They haven’t got a common ideology but they are angry about the state of world and feel hopeless ...

Breshna Amin (which is a pseudonym) is a young woman from Takhar Province in Afghanistan. She is a contributor to Index on ...