Obama’s dirty secret: the fossil fuel projects the US littered around the world
Through the Export-Import Bank, the Obama administration has spent nearly $34bn on dirty energy plants in countries from India to Australia to South Africa. Seemingly...
Results of an innocent looking referendum in Italy may jolt the world from EU to Pakistan, Why?
Samina Tippu | Italian public would be voting, on Dec. 4, in a referendum to approve of a bill of political reforms presented by Italian...
Trump may cause fresh spike in Pakistan-India tensions
With the election of a hawkish Donald Trump in the US, Mr Modi may even now be gambling that the year ahead will see...
A new idiom of Dalit assertion
VALERIAN RODRIGUES | Nov 20, 2016 There’s a new turn in Dalit politics that entails taking charge of affairs in their own hands, and a...
Why Pakistan must not be an interventionist state?
If I have to make readers understand that why Pakistan’s narrative is insecure and unhealthy. Only reason that is plausible in whole narrative of...
With the future of liberal democracy hanging in the balance, what next?
Robert Muggah | Open democracy Last week one quarter of American voters lit the world on fire. By voting in Donald Trump as their forty-fifth...
America’s dominance is over. By 2030, we’ll have a handful of global powers
Robert Muggah | World Economic Forum The world's political landscape in 2030 will look considerably different to the present one. Nation states will remain the...
I’m Muslim, but My Roommate Supports Trump
Romaissaa Benzizoune | Nov 13, 2016 When she outed herself to me as a Trump supporter, I realized I had finally found the “silent majority.”...
What Is a TinyLetter? Like Ye Olde Blog, but Less Public
Let’s recap — not the election or imposture of Mr. Trump, but the trajectory of the mass-distributed personal update. In the beginning, there was...
Where Even Nightmares Are Classified: Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo
Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees. Every day when Lt. Cmdr....
How a joke about Sisi’s fridge has strained Cairo-Riyadh ties
Saudi Shura Council head Abdullah Al-Sheikh’s unannounced visit to Cairo on Nov. 3 was apparently Riyadh’s positive response to Gulf mediation efforts to calm...
Defeat likely spells the end of Clinton Dynasty
Daniel Halper & Marisa Schultz | Nov 10, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s second defeat in her quest for the White House — capped by a humbling concession...