Pakistan Victim of U.S. Meddling to Contain China’s Rise
"Yes, I feel the change has been abetted by USA, but even they must be surprised how easily they did...
Month: April 2022
Neuroscience Gets in the Way of Appreciating Art
Illustration by Irshad Salim, circa 2008 Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the...
Amartya Sen on Identity, Decolonization and How to Change the World
Amartya Sen recently spoke from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the New Statesman’s ideas editor, Gavin Jacobson. Illustration by Sadia Tariq...
Why The Past 10 Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to...
Julian Assange Interviews Imran Khan (Video)
"Just watch this, and you will know why what happened. History almost repeating itself," an independent British observer/analyst of South...
India’s Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare
Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana in Scientific American: Last month, while most of the world focused on the war...
Finland and Sweden Inch Toward NATO
"The problem isn’t that NATO enlargement went too far, the problem is that NATO enlargement didn’t go far enough" Illustration...
A Lake in Florida Is Suing to Protect Itself
Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal...
Bangladesh Has Become a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
By Claudia Sadoff in IPS: A decade ago, not even one in four rural women (in Bangladesh) could be said...
UAE Requires $671bln Investments to Achieve Carbon Neutrality
The UAE will require 2.5 trillion dirhams ($671.1 billion) in investments to transition to carbon neutrality (net zero), according to...
