Category: Opinion
The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
There’s a reason we keep forgetting things, Charan Ranganath -a psychologist and neuroscientist at the…
How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold…
Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is…
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world and that’s because…
US Media Is Collapsing, Here’s How to Save It
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need…
The G20 Looks South
Bruno De Conti , Pedro Rossi, Arthur Welle, and Clara Saliba in Phenomenal World: In…
Geopolitics and the Geometry of Global Trade
McKinsey’s Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, January 2024) includes analysis of the changing geometry of…
Shockwaves in the Global Order
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the…
‘Empire: A Ghost Story’ a Talk By Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist whose best known award-winning novel…
An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace
About Ali Abu Awwad and Ami Dar: Nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad works to establish…
An Ancient Warning on the Power and Peril of Rhetoric
John C Brady: In his dialogue Gorgias, Plato drafts a fictional conversation between Socrates and…