Browsing Category Politics
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The Fatwa on Chess
Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, last week put a fatwa on chess in advance of a tournament scheduled to be held in the ...
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Nous Sommes Paris
I love Paris. Walking through the world’s most beautiful streets for the Climate Conference reminded me of why. To me and to so many, Paris represents a romanticized ...
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Reporter’s Notebook: Inside the Brothels of Mumbai
I am seated cross-legged on a brothel floor on a hot April afternoon. The door is ajar. Just beyond it, a disheveled man in a grey pinstriped shirt appears ...
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Congo: the Story of One Family’s Endurance
The tragedies in the Congo brought to focus in the most personal, human way ...
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Goodbye Climate Change, Goodbye Global Poverty?
A political agenda for dealing humanely with climate change will have to come from the Global South ...
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Interlude: Yemen
It’s Thursday in Old Sana’a, and the call to prayer has yet to rush anyone home. Our motley tourist troupe – Egyptian, Brazilian, Canadian, American – sits in ...
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An End to Impunity? Protests and Hope for Mexico
MEXICO CITY – I have covered many massacres, witnessed too much bloodshed, so many that the latest killings should not have come as a surprise. But it doesn’t ...
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The Case for Wikipedia
Last weekend as Harvard prepared to take on Yale for Ivy League football bragging rights, a “Yale cites Wikipedia” poster flashed on College GameDay. The implication of this ...
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Timeout on the Winter Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a problem. With Stockholm, Krakow, Lviv, and now Oslo pulling out of the running to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, they’ve ...
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Poverty is not a Culture
Sendhil Mullainathan had studied poverty for years, and something haunted him in nearly every study. Born into a small rural village in India, the Harvard behavioral economist and ...
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City of Widows
In the month of July, when both heat and humidity are at their peak in the holy city of Vrindavan in north India, thousands of devotees stream in ...
