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Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we
Continue readingWhy The Past 10 Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
“Just watch this, and you will know why what happened. History almost repeating itself,” an independent British observer/analyst of South Asian descent, tells DesPardes: ALSO READ:Snowden & Imran Khan –
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Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana in Scientific American: Last month, while most of the world focused on the war in Ukraine and worried that a beleaguered Russian leadership might
“The problem isn’t that NATO enlargement went too far, the problem is that NATO enlargement didn’t go far enough“ Europe’s security architecture could be in for a monumental shift as
Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal rights. In the center of Florida, about a half-hour drive
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By Claudia Sadoff in IPS: A decade ago, not even one in four rural women (in Bangladesh) could be said to be “empowered” across five key metrics, a figure that
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The UAE will require 2.5 trillion dirhams ($671.1 billion) in investments to transition to carbon neutrality (net zero), according to a report by Standard Chartered. While private investors can help
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“Imran Khan’s PTI-led coalition government in Islamabad collapsed due to their excessive reliance on charismatic leadership and his (Imran Khan) large fan-following –which could not compensate for very aggressive foreign
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Pipelinistan and geopolitics of energy security are South Asia’s (particularly India and Pakistan) major issues on the front burner -albeit of national security matter, and not peripheral options. Both neighbors
Washington reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their US backers within the
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already transformed the global economy—but not in the ways one might expect, FP’s Adam Tooze writes. “One lasting story of this war could be the
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ON the Coercive Arm of Government a new paper is available at the Princeton website. ABSTRACT: Policies to make police forces more representative of communities have centered on race. But
Continue readingAre the Police demographically representative of those whom they serve?