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...
After the 1998 nuclear tests, India engaged with the global non-proliferation order. The tests invited sanctions from a few countries, including the United States, and condemnation from many countries Rajiv Nayan On 11 May, India is completing 25 years of...
We don’t want to shut off anyone’s water, so we encourage all New Yorkers with unpaid water bills to check in with the Department of Environmental Protection and find out what their options are. By paying our water bills, we...
The firm adherence to any belief system or religion by its followers is fraught with the danger of engendering fanaticism, bigotry and xenophobia in that community Adil Rasheed The once-vaunted Global War on Terror (GWOT) and even the ongoing Global...
Almost 60 percent of this budget, $62.5 billion in total, goes to education, healthcare, and social services. It provides money for schools that lost enrollment, as well as funding childcare, summer youth employment, and affordable housing. Eric Adams Last week,...
A major EU-wide push towards engaging with the region came in 2019 when the EU labelled China as a ‘systemic rival’. From 2019 onwards, France, the United Kingdom, the European Union (EU), Germany, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic articulated...
Building a renewable energy future will bring down emissions and mitigate climate damage in the years to come, and it will also drive down pollution and improve air quality Eric Adams Last week, New York City celebrated Earth Week by...
