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Saudi Arabia’s image-building efforts suffer another setback
Saudi Arabia's presidency of this year's G20 is no longer the golden PR opportunity MBS dreamed of.
The automated path to social and ecological destruction
The destruction caused by automation has already started to outweigh its constructive potential.
Learning to learn during a pandemic
The global disruption of education poses a greater threat to most children than COVID-19.
Trump and Trumpism: Four years and an eternity later
Whether Trump gets another term as president or not, Trumpism will not disappear any time soon.
Social media: An addictive product unlike any other
The more you use a particular social media platform, the more addictive that platform becomes - for you, specifically.
If (only) Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim
Why did Americans condemn the new supreme court justice's extremely conservative ideology by likening her to a Muslim?
‘Islam’ is not in crisis, liberalism is
When the whole world is facing unprecedented upheaval, it is astonishing to suggest 'Islam' alone is in crisis.
Trump’s normalisation of Israel spreads to Africa
Trump's 'normalisation' deals are hurting not only Palestinians, but all who hope for a moral international order.
Where have British women over 65 gone?
While British media focuses on the pandemic's effect on young people, it ignores the most vulnerable - elderly women.
Vaccine diplomacy and the US-China rivalry in Africa
Forget the 5G tussle. The Chinese-US rivalry in Africa is about to enter a whole new phase amid the COVID vaccine race.
The false inclusivity of the Taliban’s emirate
The hypocrisy of the Taliban's mantra of inclusion has been exposed during the intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha.
A new Iran deal is unlikely regardless of who wins in November
The IRGC will likely play a more active political role in Iran, which means talks with the US are unlikely to resume.
Dream on progressives, Trump is not going to jail
Even if Trump loses the election, there will be no legal 'reckoning' for his alleged crimes.
Ban ‘panic defence’, save LGBTQ lives
Allowing the use of the 'panic defence' in court enables impunity for murderers of LGBTQ people.
The protests in Thailand are making history
For the first time in decades, people are openly defying the authority of the monarchy.
Abolish anti-Blackness: Hair and racism in South Africa
How a racist beauty advertisement reinforced colonial ideas that present Blackness as abnormal in relation to whiteness.
Diversity in Brazil is still just an illusion
The myth of Brazil being a 'racial democracy' seems to be crumbling, but real racial justice is still not within reach.
There is no military solution for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Only diplomacy will work.
The Amy Coney Barrett hearings were political theatre
But they do have consequences.