Issue 479

January / February 2015 - "Democracy in the digital age"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2015

• QUIZ - Democracy in 2015

From this month's magazine:

• Democracy in the digital age

• Dreams of freedom, dreams of control

• Are we talking more or listening more on the internet?

• Be careful with internet laws

• Press freedom?

• Privacy

Web exclusives this month:

• Crossing into Israel every morning to work

• Podemos: 'We have to rescue the people, not the banks'

• Egypt, defeated

• Forget boundaries; we need bridges

• An honest conversation with the Earth

• Living with fracking

From the blogs this month:

• Education - change it completely?

• Climate change - what's happening? - short video

• Stop people not paying tax

• Kenyan railway will destroy the slums

• Paris vs Baga: who chooses what is in the news?

• The Pope in the Philippines

• Shell doesn't take responsibility for oil spills

• The Paris attack and extremist Europe

• Questioning religion

• How to be a good Indian woman

• Does our money-crazy world really make us happy?

READY LESSONS FROM THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES:

• READY LESSON (for Upper-Intermediate learners) : DEMOCRACY

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : EDUCATION