To my daughters: Don’t forgive my generation for failing you and the planet | Climate Crisis
Dear daughters, Albert Einstein was a wise and learned man. A long time ago, when I was your budding university age, I read something he […]
Opinions
Biden’s fossil fuel hypocrisy is betraying the planet | Joe Biden
Ahead of its Climate Ambition Summit in September, the United Nations is calling on global leaders to phase out fossil fuels. US President Joe Biden […]
The end of affirmative action will also hurt white students | Opinions
The recent Supreme Court decision to ban the consideration of race in college admissions is poised to have a significant impact on school access and […]
For Sri Lankan Tamils, the Black July pogroms live on, 40 years later | Human Rights
The Tamil community from Sri Lanka commemorates the 40th anniversary of Black July this week. The state-sponsored anti-Tamil pogroms which occurred throughout the island in […]
China’s missing ex-minister reveals the limits of Xi Jinping’s power | Politics
The removal of Qin Gang, China’s youngest foreign minister several decades, and the 57-year-old’s mysterious month-long disappearance, have grabbed global headlines. But while much of […]
Is Netanyahu good for the Palestinians? | Opinions
“Netanyahu: That’s Good for the Jews”, or so read the posters circulated by his ultraorthodox and ultra-Zionist Chabad supporters during the 1996 Israel elections, which […]
Africa, beware of Russia’s money promises | Russia-Ukraine war
Amid the backdrop of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and growing international isolation, Russia will attempt to demonstrate it can still count on many old […]
Oman shows how a fossil fuel producer can embrace clean energy | Renewable Energy
Ahead of the COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year, the role of oil and gas-producing economies in the clean energy transition is coming […]
Rising tomato prices: The latest weapon against Muslims in India | Politics
“Who are the people who have increased the prices of vegetables now?” Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of the northeast Indian state of Assam […]
How Russia tried to colonise Africa and failed | Opinions
“Remember, you are white, a man of the superior race,” this was one of the rules Lieutenant Grigorii Chertkov espoused while deployed in Africa in […]