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Will Kashmir turn into ‘heaven on earth’ again?
The state was also exempted from all the laws of the land, unless specifically adopted by its own Legislative Assembly Upon setting foot in Kashmir in…
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Right candidate, right time
In what’s likely to be a punishing campaign, Kamala Harris ticks all the boxes Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris as his running…
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Lebanon Needs Transformation, Not Another Corrupt Unity Government
If the United States lets France take the lead, the Lebanese people will get more political paralysis, cosmetic reforms, and Hezbollah control of state institutions. The…
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State of democracy in Africa: changing leaders doesn’t change politics
For the last few years the African political landscape has been dominated by high profile changes of leaders and governments. In Angola (2017), Ethiopia (2018), South…
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A political Commentary: The conspiracy of depoliticization of 1975 creeping in Bangladesh
Against the backdrop of a frightful pandemic the present lull in political activities in the country is understandable though not desirable. Yet the phenomenon of discernible…
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Covid-19 and the global economy: role of SDGs
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals will become even more significant in the post-pandemic economy The fallouts from the Covid-19 pandemic for the medium to long term…
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Older voters won’t forgive Trump for COVID
“It is what it is.” Well, Mr. President, the wife of the late David Nagy thinks you are wrong. She is furious at you about the…
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Fragmenting Tamil Politics
As Sri Lanka powerfully consolidates under the Rajapaksa-led SLPP, the Federal Party’s long hegemony of Tamil parliamentary politics is unravelling. The parliamentary election results are unsurprising…
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Can Biden Break Through Trump’s Base of Hispanic Voters?
The president is polling surprisingly well with Latinx communities. Democrats need a strategy to change that. When Juan Suarez-Rivas was 17, he volunteered to join a…
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Art 370, CAA, triple talaq, Ram Mandir are just one cycle of Modi’s ‘permanent revolution’
If the opposition is waiting for BJP's cultural nationalism to subside of its own and material issues to become salient again, it will have to wait…
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Unjust jail reform
ON this day in 1974, Edward Nalon took his own life at a prison in Ontario, Canada, after being jostled between segregation units and solitary confinement…
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Coronaphobia’ is far more deadly than the coronavirus
The guidance from the World Health Organization on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) was published last October based on “the latest scientific literature.” Border screenings and closures, internal…