Reading time: 5 minutes Among the innocent victims of any conflict, we also unfortunately have the cultural and historical sites of the territories plagued by the military operations. In the past weeks much has [ … ]
Pakistan: Teetering on the Edge of Democracy
Reading time: 3 minutes For a country mired in dynasty politics and political fiefdoms, Pakistan’s 2018 general elections came as a welcome break to the masses when Imran Khan, a cosmopolitan cricket legend took [ … ]
The food saviour, India
Reading time: 4 minutes Wheat is even more precious than precious stones. It feeds billions. A sequence of unfortunate events ending with the conflict in Ukraine has choked world supplies of the grain and [ … ]
Down the Rabbit Hole: Why cognitive patterns predispose to fake news consumption
Reading time: 3 minutes Most of us are able to recognize an unknown and untrustworthy news source and call it out as such, but what happens to this ability if supposedly reliable figures exploit [ … ]
The Buffaloes’ Cliff
Reading time: 9 minutes On March 3rd, 2022 Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company producing the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, reached a new agreement with the group of States that brought it in court for [ … ]
Bearing the gift
Reading time: 3 minutes Flipping over the twisted rhetoric of maternity Motherhood and making a career, known as an ever-lasting struggle. Maternity as a burden instead of a gift. Have we taken some time [ … ]
The Stories You (Probably) Missed Recently
Reading time: 6 minutes In the recent weeks the world had its eyes focused on the brutal conflict in Ukraine. However, that isn’t the only ongoing geopolitical crisis – from a brutal ethnic cleansing [ … ]
Sitting on the fence: Day-to-day censorship of freedom of expression
Reading time: 4 minutes In times of difficulty, we tend to become more myopic and it is extremely complicated to make our way through all the complexities that arise around us as huge and [ … ]
The Tyranny of the Majority
Reading time: 3 minutes If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? [ … ]
Monday Briefing 09/05/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes For the last edition of the semester, the Monday Briefing takes us to the US, where a historic sentence regulating abortion is reportedly about to be overturned by the Supreme [ … ]