Patriarchal anxiety and Aurat March
International Women’s Day, observed annually on March 8, serves as a global reminder of the historic and ongoing struggle for gender equality. Its roots trace back to the early 20th…
‘Urdu medium’
IF you eat at one of Karachi’s upscale restaurants, chances are that the conversations you overhear from nearby tables will be in English. This is equally true of ice cream…
Both welfare and growth
LAST week on these pages, Khurram Husain wrote about the rapidly diminishing viability of Pakistan’s bailout-dependent economic strategy. Global political realignments under the new Trump administration may very well usher…
Punjab’s living space problem
With over 241.49 million people, Pakistan has one of the highest population growth rates in the world, despite witnessing a slight slowing down over the decades. Its population stood at…
Greek tragedy
AMONGST the biggest stories of 2023 was the stranding and eventual capsizing of a boat in the Mediterranean carrying hundreds of people trying to smuggle themselves into Greece. The fated…
Lessons from US
America and Pakistan are two totally different countries, and their democracies are very different breeds. Yet the recent US elections have some relevance, if not lessons, for Pakistan. The majority of Trump supporters were…
Trump’s economic nationalism
Right-wing populist Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 US presidential election is expected to fuel a resurgence of economic nationalism in the US. The 21st century has witnessed a…
US Democrats seen losing more ground with blue-collar workers
The findings are undeniable and are already troubling Democrats as they analyze their defeat: the party is falling further behind with the working-class voters it has claimed for decades to…
What Kamala’s loss portends
MUCH of the election postmortem predictably focuses on the mistakes made by Kamala Harris, but I want to take a step back for a big-picture explanation of the Democrats’ across-the-board losses in…
Factors behind Trump’s 2024 victory
The 2024 US presidential election saw Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party suffer a significant defeat, with Donald Trump reclaiming the White House and Republicans taking control of the Senate.…
