Category: Politics
Elections 2024: Educated Women in a Village Barred From Voting by Husbands
Men claim restrictions meant to ‘protect’ women from political hostilities; ECP can void polls in…
Why Men Are Drifting to the Far Right
Rachel Kleinfeld at Persuasion: Last week, a widely-circulated analysis in the Financial Times confirmed what many researchers had long…
Narendra Modi is Celebrating His Scary Vision for India’s Future
Zack Beauchamp in Vox: On Monday, tens of millions across India celebrated the opening of the…
Business Model of Social Media
Diary of a CEO: Why social media preys on negativity; and 10 negative effects of…
In Pictures: The Art of Resistance Endures
Scott Peterson in The Christian Science Monitor: Rarely have so many Lebanese turned out on the…
Tariq Ali on Winston Churchill: “His Times, His Crimes”
Tariq Ali, a writer, activist, and longtime public intellectual has authored many books and is…
Sham Elections
Faisal Siddiqi writes in Dawn: Symbols as the soul of elections: A 12-member bench of…
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,…
Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?
By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing…
‘Clash of Empires’, ‘Clash of Civilizations’…and a Comment on ‘History’ Video
For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs…
When War Loses Its Power, ‘We Must Have a New Concept of the State’
Jim Sleeper in Washington Monthly: Berkowitz’s must-read essay argues that the nature of war itself has changed…