Category: Politics
Welcome to Pakistan: Democracy’s Decay: The Senate’s Descent Into Deception
by Rabia Azfar Nizami in The Express Tribune: The democratic structure of governance rooted in…
Empire of the Ants: What Insect Supercolonies Can Teach Us
John Whitfield in The Guardian: It is a familiar story: a small group of animals…
Countering Growing Authoritarianism Requires a Robust Civil Society, Media & Academia
by Margee Ensign at IPS: (C)ountering growing authoritarianism requires a bigger, more interconnected ecosystem of…
Civil Society’s Proper Place
Lee Siegel at The Ideas Letter: Consider the recent trend of “The Great Resignation” and…
Geopolitical Turbulence and Iran-Pakistan Pipeline
Dawn Editorial: WHILE U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu’s recent testimony before a Congressional…
Demystifying China
Maleeha Lodhi at Dawn: Western paranoia about China is frequently reflected in the Western media….
‘Organising is the Best Kind of Antidepressant’
The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits…
Parties and Movements
A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world. Sheri…
The X Ban
Waqas Ahmed at The Express Tribune: Former (Pakistani) senator Farhatullah Babar (chief of PPP’s human…
Rectifying the Past, Neglecting the Present
Top court endorsed what everyone knew since Bhutto’s hanging: it was a miscarriage of justice…
Zionism Über Alles
Hans Kundnani in Dissent: In the five months since October 7, people around the world…
Why is Russia’s President for Life Bothering With an Election Campaign?
The Proof is in the Putin Excerpts of an article by Andrew Ryvkin at Air…