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In February 2025, Argentina’s president Javier Milei presented Elon Musk with his “chainsaw against bureaucracy”, and Musk exclaimed: “I am become meme.”

Far right

How the far right uses humour and meme culture to its advantage

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by Mirco Göpfert
by Konstanze N’Guessan

Repression

Student movements in India face growing government scrutiny

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by Arun P. Ghosh
Cartoon by Iranian artist Mana Neyestani.

Authoritarian regimes

“Humour helps overcome the fear imposed by dictatorship”

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by Mana Neyestani
This meme spread in Kenya following President William Ruto’s announcement to buy a machine that makes chapati – a popular flatbread – for schools. Many consider this to be superfluous compared to other problems in the country.

Internet culture

When humour and tragedy go hand in hand

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by Alba Nakuwa
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in November 2024, where Brazil proposed a global wealth tax.

Financial justice

A global minimum tax rate for the super-rich

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by André de Mello e Souza
Shamsia Hassani, graffiti artist from Afghanistan.

Women's rights activists

“Even though they are in darkness, their hearts are full of hope”

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by Shamsia Hassani
Donald Trump and Elon Musk in front of the White House in March – a textbook example of the merging of power and wealth.

Poverty reduction

Time to set a limit on extreme wealth

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by Olivier De Schutter

Disability inclusion

People with disabilities in Nigeria face barriers to cancer treatment

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by Sarafadeen Olalekan Oyeleke
"Golf", by Khalid Albaih.

Cartoons

“Challenge the history that our new-age pharaohs will try to write”

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by Khalid Albaih
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
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