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What is Fascism?
Since before Donald Trump took office, historians have debated whether he is a fascist. As a teacher of World War II history who has written about…
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How to Solve the Cancer of Corruption
We have to design a system so that corruption does not pay and is not even worth it Corruption is a problem everywhere -- it is…
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The future of India-China Relationship is Now All About the Flux in US-China Ties
As the prospects for armed conflict at LAC recede, Indian strategists must now begin the process of making sense of the troubled India-China relationship. The disengagement…
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DSA – The Law That Jails Now Kills
Mushtaq Ahmed, the writer, the commentator, the socially conscious citizen, the articulate but moderate voice of dissent and a critical observer of current events is dead.…
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‘All Men are Created Equal’ But Every Vote is Not
To a U.S. immigrant who grew up under a de facto dictatorship and election fraud, the quotation “All men are created equal” was unfamiliar and utopic.…
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Will Biden’s Sanctions Help Restore Democracy in Myanmar?
On January 31st, generals in Myanmar seized power, after their political allies lost an election in a landslide to the National League for Democracy, the party…
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Citizens’ Manifesto
The Citizens’ Movement has called for freedom from political regression and justice for the marginalised. The Supreme Court has reversed the political regression that KP Oli,…
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India Is a Flashpoint in the China-U.S. Cold War
The threat posed by Beijing has the Modi government slowly shedding the nation’s history of nonalignment. The danger for U.S. in Southeast Asia, as I explained…
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Biden’s First 30 Days were Easy. Now Comes the Hard Part
US President Joe Biden has hit the ground running. In his first two days in office, he signed 17 executive orders—more than any previous US president…
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Intellectual Property and COVID-19 Medicines: Why a WTO Waiver May Not be Enough
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the race to make vaccines and other useful technologies more accessible to people around the world, has once again highlighted the tension…
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The Political Chessboard
POLITICS is a war of nerves and political battles can result in terrible mistakes. What happened in the NA-75 by-election last week shows how one incident…
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Searching Ways Forward for Bangladesh in the Time of Pandemic: Climate Change and Disaster Management challenges in Bangladesh
‘Climate change is a global problem but the reality is it created by only some countries,’ said Dr. Atiq Rahman in a webinar on Thursday. The…