David Rothkopf, Daily Beast Last week the Chinese Communist Party threw a party for itself. It celebrated 100 years since its founding. It characterized itself as the “savior” of China, the authors of the country’s current greatness. And yet, for all the over-the-to ...বিস্তারিত
Deirdre Shaw/The Conversation Few people want to buy products that involve the exploitation or enslavement of the workers who make them – but that’s exactly what most of us do on a daily basis. Estimates reveal that there are 40.3 million people in slavery worldwide ...বিস্তারিত
Saibal Chatterjee/Gulf Today It takes courage and grace to announce the end of a 15-year marriage in the manner that the high-profile Kiran Rao and Aamir Khan have done. Not only did the couple face the media together, they also issued a statement so dignified and assiduo ...বিস্তারিত
Cheyenne Roundtree/The Daily Beast Following Britney Spears’ heart-wrenching testimony last month, which made clear just how badly the judicial system has failed her, many questioned how a mega-famous 39-year-old woman who had a Las Vegas residency, released multiple hi ...বিস্তারিত
Ronju Sarkar, Blitz In 2018, the main culprit behind the foiled abduction attempt of Princess Latifa was notorious terrorist outfit Al Qaeda. One of the abductors, Tiina Jauhiainen even had admitted to a foreign television channel, when Princess Latifa was rescued from th ...বিস্তারিত
Karan Thapar/Hindustan Times One of the most delightful British traditions is the keeping and publishing of political diaries. When well-written, they’re not just revealing but enormous fun. The politicians whose memories have enthralled readers include Harold Macmillan ...বিস্তারিত
Brian Leavey/USA Today My father loved to fix stuff. And he loved to learn how. Whenever we had work done on our house – I remember several big renovations – my dad would follow the workers around. Not to keep an eye on them, but to learn from them. He was forever cur ...বিস্তারিত
Barrett Holmes Pitner/The Daily Beast When I think of Juneteenth, I can’t help but think about a famous speech by Frederick Douglass—and about the young Mexican American activist who told me a couple of years ago that he wanted to celebrate Juneteenth instead of the F ...বিস্তারিত
Gulf Today Cristiano Ronaldo and Naomi Osaka, the football and tennis stars, have each made a quiet and assertive statement in the middle of a global pandemic. Ronaldo removed Coca Cola bottles from the table at his Euro 2020 press conference on June 17, and Osaka refused ...বিস্তারিত
Hafed Al-Ghwell/Arab News Regardless of the outcome of Friday’s presidential election in Iran, most Iranians were already resigned to a familiar fate. Disillusionment and voter apathy have chastened the fervor and passion for reforms seen throughout the conservative Ahm ...বিস্তারিত