Adil Rasheed The imploding geopolitical core of West Asia frequently spews out explosive new threats and unstable strategic alliances that often fizzle out in time. Many grandiose initiatives, such as the innumerable Israeli-Palestinian peace plans, the now comatose 41-nation Islamic...
Living in New York City, many of our young people only see food as a finished product on the shelf of a supermarket, in a bodega, or in a package. We want to help them understand how the food system...
Ashish Shukla Based on the recommendations of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1971, the European Union (EU) launched the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) scheme to provide developing countries easy access to EU’s large market. Developing...
The new program will make life easier for all the small restaurant owners who are pillars of our communities. There will be one process for all outdoor dining, housed under one city agency. From the Upper West Side to Far...
The divisions within EU and between EU and the US over China are also apparent. Reportedly, Brussels is struggling to forge a consensus approach on China as some countries are inclined to engage with Beijing over trade and Ukraine crisis...
We are also opening up streets across the city as part of our Open Streets program. You can step right outside your door to enjoy food, games, music, and more with friends and neighbors. This summer, Open Streets is expanding...
The culture of insolence that Imran Khan has unleashed and normalized in Pakistan has taken civility away from Pakistani politics. Unfortunately, he seems to be dictating the terms of political discourse today Ashok K. Behuria Pakistan continues to surprise everybody...
Participatory budgeting gives you a direct say in the future of your community. You decide how our money is spent. Participatory Budgeting strengthens our democracy and deepens civic engagement Eric Adams Have you ever looked around your neighborhood and thought—it...
As a bloc, the EU has been unable to convert its geo-economics heft into geopolitical traction. Part of it stems from the way Europe’s post-World War security was outsourced to the US Swasti Rao The internal and external reference points...
The inability to read is not our students’ fault nor our teachers’ fault. It doesn’t mean that a teacher isn’t doing her job well or that a child is lazy or lacking in ability. We have been using the wrong...
