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Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for 29 years, was denied a fellowship at the Kennedy School. The reason? Israel. Michael Massing in The Nation: Soon after Kenneth Roth
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by Shadab Zeest Hashmi: A tree in the vicinity of Rumi’s tomb has me transfixed. It isn’t the tree, actually, it is the force of attraction between tree-branch and sun-ray
A total of 107,746 (more than 1 lakh) needy citizens got free shelter in the last four years at the shelter home set up by former prime minister Imran Khan
November 22, 1963- a warm, sunny day in Dallas, Texas. Multiple shots ring out.Moments later, the President of the United States is dead.Two days later, the man responsible was also
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Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Jawwad S Khawaja at the launch of his book, Slaughtered without a Knife, at Kitab Ghar Literary Festival on Saturday. “I have written a
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Without IMF umbrella, strong headwinds ahead for Pak economy…Army chief calls for national consensus — to confront ‘economic & terrorism’ challenges…Huge cache of weapons seized near Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan…
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New world order. The structure of the U.S.-China bipolar rivalry will make the next Cold War less stable than the previous one, Jo Inge Bekkevold writes. Arsenal of democracy. After
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Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: With a title like that, obviously I will be making a nitpicky technical point. I’ll start by making the point, then explain why I
Ideally, of course, “a parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its
Arthur C. Brooks in The Atlantic writes that absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems. In his article “How to Embrace Doing Nothing“, Brooks says “it
China is losing its place as the center of the world’s supply chains. China has been the factory of the world for the past four decades and ushered in an
Eddie Rich CEO of the International Hydropower Association signs off the year with a gift blog for the sustainable hydropower community. As we look back on a year that has
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