Building walls is back on the political agenda, but as before it’s more about symbolism than security.

Sprawling cities bring their own transportation needs. Where options can be limited, can these needs also bring the ability for social and economic change?

‘Motor City’ went from being a vision of the new United States to a place of severe poverty and urban decay. Why does it matter for the industrialized world?

Hissene Habré was the first former African head of state to be tried before a court in an African country. What can the trial’s success teach us about the future of the international legal framework, and what is the precedent for other human rights abuses on the continent?

What is the logic of ‘Value for Money’ in development sector, and could it force foreign aid agencies to choose between irrelevance and subterfuge?

We speak to Page May, co-founder of the Chicago based group Assata’s Daughters, about Black Youth Project 100, protesting on Martin Luther King day, getting organised and most importantly, getting free.

Zed talks with Kehinde Andrews, author of Back to Black, on the need to retell and reclaim Black radicalism for the 21st Century.

Queerness has been associated with modernity in most twentieth-century debates on gender and sexuality. Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba looks at some queer modern myths, in the context of translating the queer into Latin American culture.

Renowned Egyptian novelist and feminist Nawal El Saadawi attacks a culture of sexual aggression against the girl and young woman in this extract from The Hidden Face of Eve