5 Warning Signs Of A Toxic Personality
PSYBLOG: Toxic personalities can survive and even prosper in the workplace, and elsewhere, if they have one critical ingredient: their personalities have a mixture of arrogance and deceitfulness. People with
Having the Cake and Eating It Too
Pakistan was being run for decades focused on political economy, and continues. The fruits of political economy grew leaps and bounds for political communities and interest groups. At the same
Living Beyond Means Syndrome: Responsibility Lies With the Civil Society
Syed Shabbar Zaidi writes in The Business Recorder: Pakistan is one of the 52 countries facing a severe debt crisis. The most critical problem faced by its economy is repayment
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NATO’s Philosophers
Santiago Zabala and Claudio Gallo at Aljazeera: In a recent article – Putin’s philosophers: Who inspired him to invade Ukraine? – we outlined the theoretical stances of three thinkers who likely helped
The danger Pakistan faces today is of democratic backsliding
Maleeha Lodhi in Dawn: Polarization today characterizes the country. There are few if any precedents of this even though divisive politics is not new. This polarization has divided people, society
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Does America Really Want Real News on Cable?
By Joe Ferullo in The Hill: In a memo issued on his first official day as the head of CNN, Chris Licht told his staff “too many people have lost
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The Case Against the Supreme Court of the United States
Ian Millhiser in Vox: Two events occurred Monday night — one historic, the other rather insignificant — which placed an unflattering spotlight on the Supreme Court of the United States. The
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A Short Conversation on Imran Khan’s PTI
#1a: PTI is indeed deft at Science Of Minds (Mind Games). #2a: PTI is back to being a movement for change in society. The gene is out of the bottle.
Khan Was An Experiment That Went Wrong?
AYESHA SIDDIQA thinks so. She is author of Military Inc., an insightful book on military-business (MILBUS) in Pakistan -her observations and claims did not go well then in some quarters.
Language, Identity, and Pakistani Writing in English
by Claire Chambers: Language has an important role to play in national identity. One only has to think about the Shaheed Minar in Dhaka. As its name suggests, this monument
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Tariq Ali on Ukraine Nato Expansion (Video)
Democracy Now on March 9 spoke with writer and activist Tariq Ali in London, about Russia’s invasion, NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and & how Putin’s moves galvanized a Russian
The World Can Stop Capital Flight Now
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram: Capital flight is widespread, with resource-rich countries more vulnerable. ‘Mis-invoicing’ exports and embezzling export earnings of state-owned mineral companies have been central to such wealth appropriation.