Analysis
Coronavirus and public holidays: what the data say
With the festive season ahead, Nature examines what is known about the risks of COVID spread, and how researchers will spend their time off. As worldwide…
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Why Arab states are recognising Israel
Morocco is the latest Arab country to formalise a relationship with Israel that has been an open secret for decades. There were Moroccan and Israeli liaison…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 19 December , 2020
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 18 December , 2020
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Is it not fair to ask if PM Modi exists in a different reality to the one the rest of us in habit?
Is it just that sort of moment when Indian reality becomes so surreal that it is hard to see clearly what reality is any more. Through…
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Radicalization in Our Time
Fundamentalist thought often provides justification for violence that is anathema to modern states Radicalism, and the human behavior it evokes, in South Asia and the Middle…
Analysis
How Biden Can Transform America
The country thrived when its leaders broke up monopoly power. The president-elect won’t need Congress to do so again. Joe Biden’s grand plan sure sounded right…
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How to Safely Manage U.S.-Russian Great-Power Competition
This is not a call for a reset or a new partnership, but rather for a responsible, less hostile relationship between rivals bitterly divided by visions…
Analysis
The Taliban are mega rich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan
The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001. In the fiscal…
Analysis
How have philosophers responded to the pandemic?
Philosophical proposals on a reorganisation of global economy and political ecology could help us find the way forward. In her message to mark World Philosophy Day…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 18 December , 2020
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2020, A Turning Point for European Populists?
December is always a good time to draw up year-end balance sheets. That is all the more true for this particular year, one of profound changes…