Cage fighters and Trump, an ultimate power combo
Rumors are swirling that a high-profile fan of mixed martial arts will turn out Saturday for a heavyweight battle at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden: President-elect Donald Trump. Even…
Our ‘Chicago boys’
IN 1973, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet rolled out neoliberal economic policies with the promise of reforming the economy. Backed by top minds from the influential University of Chicago’s School…
The caged country
PAKISTAN is one of the few countries where political surrogacy is still legal, where a seed can be planted by the military to gestate in the womb of democracy. Earlier…
Caged justice and numbed brains
“Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise./ Up from the past that’s rooted in pain, I rise./ I am a black ocean, leaping and wide,/ Welling and swelling…
A retarding economic growth outlook: IMF and ‘Chicago boys’ in a fix
‘The International Monetary Fund war-ned that its outlook for global economic growth over the next five years is the weakest in more than three decades, urging nations to avoid economic…
No Sleepy Joe: Biden handles an uncaged Trump
Donald Trump has long derided his Democratic rival as “Sleepy Joe” Biden but the US president got a rude awakening and fierce pushback at Tuesday’s debate from a candidate who…
Pindi needs the Chicago Boys
The reform scorecard looks dismal. Thirty months into the PTI government, police, electoral or governance reforms are floundering. From convicting the corrupt to controlling circular debt, there is little progress.…
Humane cages?
Countless variants of the theme of caged children were used to try to shame leftists into voting for Biden in the recent presidential elections, despite the fact that – as…
Death in a cage
Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi lost his battle with life in the Egyptian courtroom where had been brought in a soundproof cage for the hearing of cases against him. Morsi…
Will the caged bird sing?
And now we are about there, holding our breath and looking before and after. While the polling starts on Wednesday morning, there has to be a 48-hour pause in active…
