Category: Politics
Israel, Gaza, and McNamara’s Lessons for War and Peace
by Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: Once again the world faces death and destruction,…
Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning
Peter Beinart in The Beinart Notebook: Our guest this week is someone I admire greatly,…
‘The Use of Political Power to Achieve Economic Gains’
by Umair Javed at Dawn: The Chinese state is remarkable in that it has struck…
A Top U.S. Diplomat on What America Gets Wrong
By Nahal Toosi at Politico: Victoria Nuland has long been known as a relentless, even…
Democracy Has Run Out of Future
Ivan Krastev & Leonard Benardo in Foreign Policy: We live today amid the dregs of…
New World Order?
Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay in Phenomenal World: We live in a dysfunctional system in…
Behind the Ivy Intifada
“We can clearly recognize elite institutions’ deep commitment to sterile forms of activism.” Musa al-Gharbi…
Sunday Poem: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto…
How One Man Brought Down the Leading Members of the British Establishment
John Arlidge at the Air Mail: Britain does a good line in scandal. The Profumo…
India’s Despotic Election
The playing field is tilted decisively in favor of the ruling party. The chances of…
Saturday Poem: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
English translation of ‘Kal Aaj Aur Kal’ -Urdu poem by Aitzaz Ahsan: In the prime…