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Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last week has captured the country’s attention. Amini
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Noam Chomsky, an intellectual giant, ‘who was on Richard Nixon’s enemies list’, shares his views on consciousness and the mind: Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Anwar Abbas,
‘In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. This is unsustainable. While the working class falls further behind,
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. Abiy Ahmed won the
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Chris Griswold in The Comment: Aristotle uses the term “civic friendship” to describe the bonds that emerge from a sense of common purpose in a shared political project. “Citizens are
Harvard educated professor Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive scientist, psychologist, psycholinguist, and a public intellectual. He’s an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker’s
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Jonah Fisher at the BBC: Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says. The report said
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Girls and kids are us – in Islamabad: Irshad Salim, Karachi. Pics and videos using Huawei cellphone, archived in 2021; Curated on Sep. 24, 2022. Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil
Jeff Schatten in The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The Homework Machine,” which summed up my childhood fantasy: a machine
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: An excerpt from Delhi Jama Masjid Imam’s khutba (speech) in Sep. 2019 -a month earlier PM Narendra Modi gave nod to his government for the illegal
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The Under Secretary of United States State Dept. on Tuesday Sep 20 convened I2U2 counterparts from India, the UAE, and Israel on the margins of the UN Gen. Assembly meeting
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Africa is a region of 1.4 billion people and over 2,000 languages. News, entertainment, and even charity campaigns tend to promote a stereotypical image of Africa that ignores its nuance
Continue readingAfrica is Not a Country. Shift Your Understanding.