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NEW DELHI: The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously warned that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But…

WASHINGTON, DC: The Republican Party substantially underperformed in this year’s US midterm elections, with the candidates most closely associated with former President…

NEW YORK: Around the world, 2022 has been a year of climate catastrophes, including droughts, floods, mega-fires, typhoons, and more. Among the…

LJUBLJANA: I once asked my younger son if he could pass the salt, only to be met with the response, “Of course…

EIJING: On July 2, 1997, the Thai baht collapsed. After waves of speculative attacks, the government had run out of foreign currency…

CAMBRIDGE: In 2017, just when the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed after almost 150 years, the political extravaganza of…

BERKELEY: During its last term, the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority openly acted against the American people’s interests and preferences on abortion…

NEW YORK: We have entered a new period of energy insecurity, in which acute shortages of the kind seen this summer will…

NEW YORK: When the United Nations was built from the rubble of World War II, it would have been inconceivable for someone…

NEW DELHI: Primary commodity prices have been on a roller-coaster ride for the past year, and especially for the past six months.…