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A year on from Israel's armed assault on Hamas-controlled Gaza, the people of the territory are still prisoners in their homeland and targets of a crippling economic blockade. What prospects for 2010? by Donald Macintyre

"We need a massive, grass-roots movement to solve climate change" - Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC

The choice of the US President completes the counter-Bush trilogy: Carter, Gore and now Obama

Barack Obama promised a sharp break from the Bush era, yet he seems to have stepped into the shoes of his disgraced predecessor. As the anniversary of his election approaches, Mehdi Hasan investigates what went wrong

Irresponsible capitalism has left us in economic and political turmoil. The solution is a new democracy – and a new socialism, argues Neal Lawson

The perception of population growth in developing countries as the culprit of worldwide environmental damage is a fallacy that deserves to be eradicated

The magnitude of the global economic crisis means that we have to change completely the way we live. To do that, we need a new kind of politics – and something bigger and broader than the Labour Party, argue Neal Lawson and John Harris in this New Statesman essay

It's not so much about how many of us there are on the planet, but how we consume, and how we cope with an ageing population

The business and political elite are flying blind. This is the mother of all economic crises. It has barely started and remains completely out of control. By Martin Jacques, who this week joins the New Statesman as a columnist.

Margaret Thatcher promised wealth for all in her new society. First, though, we all had to become capitalists. Peter Wilby on our long road to ruin

What happens if the Hamas rockets stop? And what happens if they don't?

The inclusion in Obama's team of so many figures from the past heralds the continuation of the policies of the past, some of which, even among Bushites, were seen to be stupid

Green activists are seeing the global economic crisis as an opportunity, but the truth remains: high economic growth cannot be reconciled with limited resources. by Mark Lynas

The leaders of the rich countries went to Washington to save the world from sliding into deep recession. We asked key politicians, commentators and economists whether they succeeded and what we should expect, and hope for, in the coming weeks

by Simon Akam

It all started with sub-prime loans in the United States. Or did it? As the IMF is called in to bail out failing economies, the scale of European exposure to toxic debt is becoming clear

In 2008, Barack Obama has brought politics to life for Generation Y. Here Tommy Stadlen explains what it felt like to be on the campaign trail and to meet the man himself

"What are we doing in Afghanistan? A superb new history shows how successive invaders have tried, and failed, to bring order to the country through force" by John Sweeney

Banks need the confidence of the public to survive and they have lost it for years to come. The danger is that if governments take on their role, they too will lose the trust of the people

In a week dominated by the growing global financial crisis, a couple of potential tipping points in the climate change debate have passed almost unnoticed

Privatisation, free trade and market forces . . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies?

The rector of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, in the eye of storm over gay 'marriage', explains why he decided he must bless a gay relationship

The end of cheap oil helps renewables, but makes far dirtier alternatives viable. A low-carbon future will demand brave leadership

The brutal Burmese government has for years forced citizens to work for free. Twenty per cent of those sentenced to prison with hard labour perish. Meanwhile, just who will rebuild the cyclone-hit country?

Silvio Berlusconi is back in power. Rome's mayor won on an anti-immigration platform. The right is noisier than ever. But this is not a return to the dark days of Mussolini