The Climate Crisis is a Cancer Crisis
You Can’t Have Healthy People On a Sick Planet Jane Fonda in Time Magazine: About a year ago, I was declared cancer-free after four months of chemotherapy at Providence St. John’s
The Doctor Who Saw Colonialism as a Sickness
‘The Rebel’s Clinic,’ by Adam Shatz, is an engrossing biography of the psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon. Becca Rothfeld reviews Adam Shatz’s new biography of Frantz Fanon in The
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PICS: Kashmir’s Rare Snowless Winter
Auqib Javeed writes on BBC website: This year, things are different: the snow-clad mountains in the region are oddly brown and barren…”This is unprecedented,” says Manzoor Ahmad, 50, who for
Six Books You Didn’t Know Were Propaganda
The Economist on these books: ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but not all propaganda is art.” Few people would argue with the second part of that
Feeding the World in 21st Century: ‘Cities Like Forests’
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi, Lahore, Dhaka, Mumbai, etc.) should adapt to a perilous environmental future. Jon Michaud at The
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Sham Elections
Faisal Siddiqi writes in Dawn: Symbols as the soul of elections: A 12-member bench of the SC in the landmark ‘Benazir Bhutto symbols case’ (1989) had held, in essence, that
Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard
Carole Hooven in The Free Press: Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and even a congressional hearing.
The Mathematician Who Finds Poetry in Math and Math in Poetry
Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways mathematics permeates other fields. As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the
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Lenin: What’s Left of the Revolutionary a Century after his Demise?
Mahir Ali in Dawn: AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel, envisages Vladimir Lenin in the presence of God, explaining why the state of the world
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Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?
By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing rectangle in Iowa or New Hampshire is safe from an endless deluge of political ads.
OPINION: Israel Is On Its Way To Becoming a Dictatorship
Usually when we think of a coup, we think of that kind. But there is another type that is very common in history: a “coup from above.” That’s more difficult
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Pakistan releases 22-yr record of Toshakhana gifts. Many exposed as details surface.
Recipients list show Nawaz, Zardari took bulletproof vehicles, Khan retained watches. As per the documents, most of the gifts were retained by the officials free of cost except for a
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