We think of influencing as simple: someone you like online tells you to buy something, and you do, like the good little consumer that you are. Maybe it’s not that straightforward

Nature revealed last year that 2% of scientific papers – tens of thousands – are not as true as you’d think they are. Hannah looks into the situation at hand

Community is at the root of everything this football club do, in sharp contrast to the hyper-commercial professional sport

The internet has a new obsession: packing women into neat, labelled boxes based on their aesthetics. What are, then, the consequences of the commodification of women?

Welcome to the forest: Opera North’s performance of Janáček’s political opera The Cunning Little Vixen was nothing short of brilliant

The prospect of our future jobs is scary, but, perhaps even scarier, is being asked about them. Lifestyle breaks down why this is, and why, ultimately, our lives should be defined by something bigger than our work

After another weak COP summit, how can our leaders do more to ensure that we prevent disaster?

From fast fashion to drop-shipping and profiteering, has Depop been consumed by capitalism?

Balenciaga has been called out for putting their label on cult fashion products to appeal to the capitalist world of label-lovers. Have they gone too far?

Travis Scott is allegedly profiting from the Astroworld tragedy by partnering with the flagrantly corrupt online therapy platform, BetterHelp

Chloe Zhao’s Oscar-winning Nomadland is a unique poetic meditation on freedom, happiness, and being human

Clementine Lawrence looks at how a Coronavirus vaccine has driven the world apart, rather than pulling us together as it should have done

The ongoing Indian farmers’ protests are the latest in a history of non-violent mass protests against governments that ignore the needs of their people, as Annie Dabb lays out

Felix Hanif-Banks covers a recent talk on Love Island and Marxism, discussing how the controversial show contributes to a negative culture of consumerism

Capitalism and the climate crisis are inexplicably linked, and to save our planet we must adopt a more sustainable system, writes Luisa Bax

Lily Rosenberg contemplates her love hate relationship with Valentine’s Day, concluding that the grass is not always greener on the other side of love

Has our capitalist society capitalised on the self-care trend too much?

A report published a Zurich team has revealed the small handful of companies that hold disproportionate influence in the global economy

Editor Jacklin Kwan looks at the history of how society has come to face an existential environmental threat at the hands of climate change. Could things have been different?

Research from the University of Manchester shows the consumers are willing to change their consumption habits to combat climate change.