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Tunisia’s Saied Projected in Landslide Win: Reuters

October 14, 2019
Exit polls project Kais Saied as the decisive winner of Tunisia’s presidential race by 70 percent. Tunisia triggered a wave of protests in 2011, what became known as the Arab Spring: It was the first country to remove its dictatorial ruler and the only one to sustain the transition to democracy....

The New York Times: Pope Tells Oil Executives to Act on Climate

June 13, 2018
Three years after his urgent letter warning of the dangers of rapid climate change created by humans, Pope Francis has taken additional action by addressing the leaders of the world’s biggest oil companies. Oil and gas company efforts have been lackluster in transitioning away from limited fossil...

A Start in Lahore

June 11, 2013
Pakistan’s election was the first democratic transfer of power in the country’s history – and also a start in giving voice to Pakistan’s minorities, writes Hassan Siddiq in an opinion essay for Outlook India. Such minorities include bonded laborers as well as Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. Of...

Ethical Minefield of Microchipping: Spiegel

October 28, 2019
Thousands of people in Sweden, Germany, the UK and the US have agreed to implant microchips embedded in glass tubes the size of a rice grain in their bodies. For travel conglomerate TUI staff volunteers in Stockholm, the chip allows them to open doors and other electronic locks and activate...

A Disservice to the Diaspora

November 26, 2014
India’s strong diaspora, 25 million in all, contributes to economic growth in many ways. India is the world’s biggest recipient of overseas remittances, with amounts that surpass foreign direct investment. A large section of the diaspora often goes under-appreciated, comments Nayan Chanda,...

Dirty, Pricey, Obsolete: Why Desalination Is Not Worth Its Salt

January 3, 2013
Desalination is not a solution to freshwater shortages being reported by many dry regions around the globe, including many sections of the United States. Adam Scow of Food & Water Watch argues that conservation of water is the better strategy and notes that “the technology is being pushed by...

Globalization Lessons from History

January 29, 2002
History professor Harold James argues that the political challenges globalization presents today are similar to the challenges at the turn of the twentieth century. These problems drive a wedge between the normal left/right division. As James notes, “a triple division, between anti-globalisation...

Elimination of Food Waste Could Lift 1bn Out of Hunger

September 9, 2009
Eliminating food waste could have a number of beneficial, and potentially multiplicative, effects. First, if a quarter of the amount of food typically thrown away annually in the US and UK was instead redistributed globally to the poor, this action could lift over a billion people out of the hunger...
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