Lucky Joe Biden and the undoing of Trump
Joe Biden is thrice-blessed. Not only did he win the Democratic nomination and then the presidential election, but…
Trying to make sense of vaccine triage
Triage is always crude and messy, and there are always mistakes, but the goal is to save as…
WikiLeak’s Assange: (almost) free at last!
On Monday morning, a British judge finally rejected the U.S. attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and…
Past the spring and into the Arab winter
Ten years ago this month, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, set himself alight in front of…
The Love Jihad isn’t really a problem in India
The ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance’ was passed into law in the north Indian state of Uttar…
Anti-abortion laws and radicalization
“Get your rosaries off our ovaries,” chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion…
Finding salvation in a vat
We are putting a final end to the fossil era,” said Denmark’s’s climate minister, Dan Jorgensen, last week.…
Ethiopia sees another war in Tigray
“Love always wins. Killing others is a defeat,” said Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2018, shortly…
No, democracy isn’t really in decline
There’s no hurricane coming, but the windows of downtown Washington are covered with plywood. They were initially boarded…
Hong Kong and China: one country, one system
One Hong Kong lawmaker, Claudia Mo, said it was “the death-knell of Hong Kong’s democracy fight.” But she…