Gaza and the Muslim world
TODAY, a new round of peace talks begins in Cairo but all indications are that Israel’s genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is setting conditions that Hamas will find impossible to…
Some US Sikhs fear Modi government is threatening, surveilling and doxxing them
As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations. Even so, Bains said she was shocked…
Year of global shockwaves
We’re only halfway through the year, and already 2024 has produced more high-voltage political shockwaves than any other in recent memory. This way, there’s no telling where the world will…
US SC divisions expected to be exposed as final rulings loom
The US Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, managed to bridge its ideological divide in major rulings this month involving constitutional gun rights and access to the abortion pill,…
Republicans hope to win Black voters for Trump. It won’t be easy
Orlando Owens, a rare Republican activist in a majority-Black district of Milwaukee, had hoped this election season would be different. With national polls showing waning enthusiasm for Democratic President Joe…
Dubai’s property boom shows signs of fizzling out
As cranes speckle the Dubai skyline and ultra-luxury homes change hands at record prices, signs that the city-state’s property boom is fizzling out are coming into view. Developers, investors and…
There’s something in the air
When one returns from a foreign country to Karachi, s/he is met with garbage issues and an assault on one’s olfactory senses. The city of Karachi today is not only…
An eviction epidemic
The government is gearing up to demolish Rehmanabad, a more than 50-year-old working-class neighbourhood in Karachi inhabited by one of the most oppressed and vulnerable communities in the city. Rehmanabad’s…
Resilient infrastructure
The construction of infrastructure on resilient foundations leads to such structures absorbing and preventing sudden and severe shocks which could include many disasters like floods, glacier melting, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis,…
Governance reforms anchored in civil service reforms–II
Compensation structure Civil servants complain about commitment and performance demotivation because their compensation structure compares unfavourably with those in the private sector with similar degree of responsibility and scale and…
