Changes to North Carolina voting laws could put ballots at risk
On Election Day in 2014, Joetta Teal went to work at a polling station in Lumberton, North Carolina. Like all poll workers, she was required to stay until voting booths…
The Pakistani-American vote
The United States presidential election is arguably the most closely watched democratic event worldwide. With a GDP of $27 trillion, the US leads a coalition of many Western powers, including…
‘Black and proud’: Harris has never shied away from racial identity
Former president Donald Trump, who has a long history of making incendiary comments about race, has stepped up his attacks on his 2024 White House rival Kamala Harris by claiming…
Deconstructing the spectacle and stagecraft of a Donald Trump rally
By the time Donald Trump took to the stage for his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, some of his most ardent supporters had spent the night in their cars amid…
Rethinking education
Why slog through the halls of traditional schools when the internet can turbocharge your learning from the comfort of your couch? Is it still relevant to stuff your brain with…
Trump documents case judge made multiple errors in earlier trial
The judge in former US President Donald Trump’s upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two key errors in a June trial, one of which violated a fundamental…
SCOTUS strikes at affirmative action
The Supreme Court of the United States (‘SCOTUS’) on June 29, 2023 opined a landmark decision in ‘Students for Fair Admissions, Inc v President and Fellows of Harvard College’ and…
For groups fighting US opioid crisis, settlement money can be hard to come by
Companies accused of fueling the US opioid crisis have so far paid out more than $3 billion to compensate states, but has any of the money reached the people who…
Electoral autocracy
In recent years the world has started to see a reversal of the trend towards democratization. While the contrast between democracies and dictatorships has always been there and is fairly…
The plight of a female elephant
Noor Jehan is sick to the extent that there is a fifty-fifty chance of her survival. No I am not referring to some Indian royalty or some famous woman from…
