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Context is the Foundation’s award-winning media platform, providing news and analysis around three of the most significant and interconnected issues of our time: climate change, the effects of technology on society, and socio-economic inequality. Our human-centered journalism is delivered across a range of formats — from in-depth stories to videos and podcasts to newsletters.
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In Data: Breathing in Delhi is like smoking how many cigarettes?
NEW DELHI – Pollution readings in India’s capital New Delhi hit their highest in this pre-winter season, forcing the government to restrict vehicle movement and construction, and…
How effective are early warning systems when disasters strike?
LONDON – After more than 200 people were killed in flash floods in eastern Spain, angry residents threw mud at the visiting king and hundreds of people took to the streets to protest poor…
In Sudan, war is waged on women’s bodies with impunity
Hala Alkarib is a Sudanese activist and writer and regional director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, a grassroots feminist…
As Trump’s victory showed, gender isn’t a women-only issue
Jerker Edström, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies. The election of…
Q&A: ‘AI is the internet’, says Kara Swisher
Is big tech getting too big? What influence will the industry have over lawmakers in the future? How will AI transform the way businesses operate? These are some of the questions we put to Kara…