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In one year of the BJP rule in Odisha, there have been multiple and recurring incidents of atrocities on women including the recent death of 20-year-old college student who set herself ablaze because her complaints, accusing her teacher of sexual harassment, were not acted upon by authorities.
This interview with biographer-historian Abhishek Choudhary, author of a major new work on A.B. Vajpayee, dismantles the liberal nostalgia that paints Vajpayee as a Nehruvian moderate, portraying instead a leader whose compromises and ideological loyalties helped clear the path for the unapologetic majoritarianism of today.
‘The Bully in Donald Trump’s Bully Pulpit – How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power’; ‘Kennedy’s Firing of CDC Director: A Coup Against Science and Public Health’; ‘The Trump Administration: White Supremacy in Action’; and: ‘Like Dictators of the Past, Trump is Building a Private Army’.
‘Ukraine: The End Game?’: Ukraine and NATO have been inexorably losing the war, but the Western imperial agenda will have to give way to realities. Also: ‘Why Putin Made Zelensky an Offer, Knowing it Would be Rejected’: A conversation with Russia’s foreign policy expert Sergei Poletaev following the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska.
An interview with Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and one of Europe’s foremost social thinkers, about German politics and society.
It is a curious spectacle, almost Shakespearean in its tragicomic absurdity, to watch Pakistan once again being marched—boots polished and tails wagging—into the waiting embrace of the American empire.
Beijing’s commemoration is a bold rebuttal to the West’s monopolization of WWII memory. Also: An extract from: ‘They Shall Not Pass: Our Call Against Fascism’.
‘The Illusion of Control: Deregulation, Legal Loopholes, and the Rise of AI’; and: ‘Farming in the Dark: The Black Box of AI and the Erosion of Food Sovereignty’: The third and fourth part of this series, adapted from the Bioneers 2025 panel, featuring leading voices who challenge the dominant narratives about AI and call for deeper scrutiny of its impacts.
‘Plastics in the World’s Oceans and Food: No Longer an Invisible Killer’; ‘Plastics Crisis Endangers Humanity and All Aspects of the Environment, Concludes Lancet Study’; ‘U.S. and Oil Producers Block a Treaty to Clean the World of Plastic Pollution’.
‘Fukushima Recovery Plagued with Setbacks’; ‘Fukushima Radioactive Waste Problems Metastasize’; and: Book Review: Thomas A. Bass’s “Return to Fukushima”.
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