opinion

For months, many argue that our Covid (C-19) response is a planetary fiasco, whose size is yet to surface with its mounting disproportionate and enduring secondary effects, causing tremendous socio-economic, political...

By Amulya Ganguli* What the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) defeat in three of the four states which went to the polls along with a Union territory shows is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s magic, which led his...

By Lipton Matthews A controversial new law in California requires publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to include at least one woman on their board of directors. Supporters of those types of laws...

The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) denounces the systematic violations of human rights perpetrated by the security forces of the government of Colombia. The government of President Iván Duque has deployed...

There has been a lot of silliness around President Biden’s proposed infrastructure packages and the extent to which they are affordable for the country. First and foremost, there has been tremendous confusion about...

By Andrew Hammond* While Boris Johnson’s UK government has enjoyed buoyant poll ratings this year, it was last month hit by a series of scandals and will face an immediate electoral test as England, Scotland and...

Hidden in the vastness of the Philippine Cordillera Mountains is a stairway to heaven, dubbed by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the 8th wonder of the world. It is an...

It has been a relationship of characterised by bitterness and misunderstanding.  It began with a poorly negotiated agreement – poor, that is, from the European Union perspective – between Brussels and AstraZeneca...

President Joe Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The president proudly displays a portrait of FDR in the Oval Office. More significantly, he’s announced the most ambitious plan...

Peter’s Take is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s. APS has promised a return to “as close to pre-pandemic normal as possible” for Fall 2021,  but the details regarding what...

Two years ago, a jury awarded $58 million in damages to ten plaintiffs after finding that the Phoenix-based Biological Resource Center had deceived families into donating the body of a deceased family member. The...

Just before he left office, Donald Trump freed more than a dozen federal prisoners who had received sentences ranging from 15 years to life for growing, transporting or distributing marijuana. Yet, President Joe Biden,...

At the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ), our critical work to eliminate multigenerational poverty and create a culture of achievement for African American scholars and their families living in north Minneapolis was...

On May 5, 2021, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das unveiled liquidity support measures for the Indian economy. Prominent among these measures was the announcement that the second purchase of...

I don’t know how, when or why this goes away, and it’s hard to grasp the level of dysfunction it embeds in our little experiment in democratic/republican self-government, but … … recent polls continue to show...

Any writer worth their salt knows that a good story is comprised of three primary components: Character, Setting, and Plot. The same can be said of visual storytelling, regardless of the medium. As a commercial...

Marie E. Lamont, President and COO of Inteliquet Biopharmaceutical companies developing cancer treatments need to restart the clinical trials shut down or delayed during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic....

The New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Andrew Yang is selling himself as a mayoral candidate who would be New York City's No. 1 hype man. Too bad New York City does not...