Author: DPstaff

Geopolitical Turbulence and Iran-Pakistan Pipeline

Dawn Editorial: WHILE U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu’s recent testimony before a Congressional…

Of Monkeys and Men: The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal

Lawrence M. Krauss in Quillette: Frans de Waal, one of the world’s preeminent primatologists, passed…

Breaking Down Barriers to Women’s Land Rights Starts in Our Homes

Nearly 30 years ago, in 1990s, I became a landowner for the first time in…

Poem: “Damn!” By César A Gonzalez

Sometimes he’d be washing the car. . . all by himselfand he’d say, “Damn!”or sweeping…

Demystifying China

Maleeha Lodhi at Dawn: Western paranoia about China is frequently reflected in the Western media….

Some of the Greatest Scientific Hoaxes

Eleanor Harris in New Scientist: The history of science is replete with frauds and fakers –…

Aankhon Ko Visa Nahi Lagta By Gulzar

Blast from the past: Gulzar pens a beautiful ode to Mehdi Hasan, and remembers Ahmed…

Maniza Naqvi on Saving Karachi’s Oldest Bookstore

Maniza Naqvi at Literary Hub: Back in December 2016, I was sitting in my office…

The Public Sector Will Look Very Different in the Next Several Years

Demographic shifts will shape tomorrow’s public sector as the global population is aging, and Gen…

‘Organising is the Best Kind of Antidepressant’

The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits…

Does AI Understand Things?

Have Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrated “theory of mind”?; Do LLM representations map onto the…

Parties and Movements

A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world. Sheri…