Brave New World, a dystopian novel, written by Aldous Huxley almost nine decades ago portrayed a hi-tech world state.

As the coronavirus sweeps the world, it hits the poor much harder than the better off. One consequence will be social unrest, even revolutions.

Pandora’s Box is open, and our ruthless economic system is making everything far worse.

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Since 2018, the march has attracted fierce criticism, especially online. But the organizers and participants are undaunted.

The Taliban will seek to run Afghanistan in line with their values and. America will have to stand back and watch.

Does Pakistan have a long-term solution for unemployment?

The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the urgent work of planning for a new epoch.

This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come

We should be skeptical toward claims that the pandemic changes everything. China won’t benefit, and the United States will remain preeminent.

A pandemic is no time to tout the superiority of any country’s governance system or approach, let alone compete for global dominance. Instead of congratulating itself on having pushed back COVID-19, China should quietly win trust by helping the United States and other countries, not out of strategic interest, but on moral grounds.

District administration officials are the first line of response.

This crisis has triggered an upsurge in intellectual work from academia, civil society, and professionals from other domains.

The arc of human presumption is bending towards human extinction.

Does Islamabad win from the conclusion of a deal between the United States and the Taliban?

Pakistan has been rapidly advancing its nuclear weapons capabilities with China’s help. What can India do about it?

The Imran Khan government is still refusing to seek cooperation from the opposition, even amid a health emergency.

Pakistan is jubilant over the U.S.-Taliban peace deal, but celebration may be premature.

Prime Minister Khan has been criticized for his response, but Pakistan is managing the best it can under difficult circumstances

There were some tentative signs of good news in Europe, as the number of people dying and the number of new cases registered each day fell in several countries, including Spain and Italy, the two worst-affected.

Now that the Trump administration has taken charge of the government’s pandemic response, how is it doing?

A growing startup industry offers a glimpse of a different future

Once again, the euro zone is consumed by rows over debt

Banks entered this crisis in better health than the previous one. How sick might they get?

Kathleen Hicks throws cold water on hopes (or fears) of any dramatic defense cuts, explaining what it would actually take to reduce military spending and why it’s so much easier said than done.

Chinese and Indonesian archives show how Beijing and Jakarta cooperated in the fluid politics of the global anti-imperialist movement, siding in 1963-64 against what they viewed as a British imperialist plot to create Malaysia, a new state formed by the merger of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore.