Egypt’s rising digital authoritarianism
An appeals court upheld the three-year sentence of Manar Samy, a young Egyptian woman charged ...
The little talked about side-effects of COVID-19
In March, it was predicted that the 70 million people fleeing violence and persecution across ...
The false promise of early elections in Iraq
In October 2019, young Iraqis took to the streets en masse to demand the provision ...
American police cannot pay their way out of this crisis
In the United States, where hundreds of Black people fall victim to police brutality each ...
ADB’s depressing prospects for Pakistan
According to a report by the Asian Development Bank, Pakistan’s economy may grow at a pace of ...
Rising US-China tensions
A war of words between the US and China reached the UN General Assembly in ...
Human capital losses from pandemic
According to a new World Bank study, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to wipe out all ...
A new Iran deal is unlikely regardless of who wins
How will the outcome of the November 3 presidential election affect Iran’s relations with the ...
What is behind the hype about the new Iran-China partnership?
The mainstream US media and think-tanks based along the Washington, DC, beltway have been gripped ...
No justice for post-9/11 discrimination
A seismic shift befell American politics after the September 11 attacks, and 19 years later, ...