Editor with life as effort
How free is the press in the former military dictatorship? Ny Tid spoke with Myanmar's perhaps most independent newspaper editor who is also critical of Norwegian support.
Fear of civil war
Ukraine's literary shooting star Serhij Zjadan believes the country's political leadership has failed society. It may cause more blood in the streets of Kiev.
Out with nature romance!
We humans have a dangerous tendency to reduce nature to what we want it to be – bird song, big trees, fascinating animals and our own recreation. The critical film festival CPH DOX offers an eco-philosophical counterbalance.
Behind a mirror glass, in a riddle
Five pcs. The species 'origin in dissolution, speech difficulties and Guantánamo prisoners' zero communication are among the starting points for Jordan Scott's poetry.
To take the law into your own hands
Cartel Land is a startlingly close documentary on civil protection on every side of the Mexico-US border.
The biggest risk of all
Laura Poitras' sequel to Citizenfour is a thriller-like portrait of the people behind WikiLeaks.
Democracy extremism
While Myanmar's population has gained greater freedom and must vote in parliamentary elections on 8. November, Buddhist extremism, abuse and discrimination against Muslims is being institutionalized.
The wind in the picture
In a time of multitasking, media noise and digital currents, Straub-Huillet's films stand as immovable stones – which ask us to listen to the wind. Exhibition at the Art Academy in Trondheim
Great war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia?
In July, Ny Tid had an article in print about the escalation of the fighting in eastern Ukraine. Article author Aslak Storaker makes a number out of ...
Author of Hope
The winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Aleksijevich, gives hope, says adviser to the Helsinki Committee Inna Sangadzhieva.
PHOTO COMPETITION: «Welcome to Norway»
Radikal Portal and Ny Tid announce the Photo Competition: Welcome to Norway
The political program is in the machines
Will the coming wars, crises and disasters be a design problem first and foremost?
Hermann Kappelhoff: The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
Through close analysis of films, German film professor Hermann Kappelhoff discusses the connection between poetics and politics.
Burundi – seen from a different point of view than the western one
By: Norunn Kjenstad DEBATE: The situation in Burundi has been blown out of proportion by the opposition and civil society, which has done a good job of propaganda. The propaganda ...
No one is safe – fortunately
28. January brought trial against former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. It's the first time ...
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Strong individuals such as Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey give a softer profile to capitalism – but its ability to create inequality does not disappear for that reason.
The press's professional selection states
Ny Tid publishes a complaint here, written by the Press' professional committee:
We just hate a little
Norway is a slacker when it comes to combating hate crime and racial violence. In a time of refugee crisis and extremism on the rise, we simply have to sharpen ourselves.
Women in Cannes
I visit the Cannes Film Festival for the twelfth time, and a rented bike is the best means of access through streets in perpetual traffic jams, where dark limousines try ...
Carsten Juhl and others: Je suis Charlie – ainsi suit-il
"War politics and constitutional ethnocracy in Denmark or the Party of Freedom of Expression – which is party to Islam"
For the seventh time
From 25 to 27 May, the conference Oslo Freedom Forum will be held for the seventh time at Oslo Nye Teater. However, the leader of the Freedom Forum, Thor Halvorssen, refused to elaborate on the conference's visions for Ny Tid.
Naivism that characterizes much of global activism
The new, transnational activism is often about expressing our own conscience, the authors of Advocacy in Conflict claim. It is never innocent – but always political.