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Putin's polycrisis: Russia’s war economy hits limits
Despite economic and demographic strains, Putin will sustain the war while advancing in Ukraine. The West must toughen sanctions, supply advanced...
Big tech vs big dreck: It’s an AI-driven economy vs the left-behind
8 Oct 2025 6:10 AM ISTTrump’s erratic economic policies are being masked by an AI investment boom. The technology is powering growth and markets—for now—but it’s disguising...
Editorial: Accountability dies, kids too
7 Oct 2025 10:00 AM ISTSealing factories, suspending licenses, and introducing stricter protocols were clearly not enough.
Bare resistance: Trump’s troops meet naked protesters
7 Oct 2025 9:30 AM ISTAs President Trump sends National Guard troops to “restore order” in Portland, locals counter with humour, defiance, and bare skin — pedalling against...
Singapore’s national identity excludes those who don’t look like a...
7 Oct 2025 6:20 AM ISTSingapore is an interesting case study. Since independence in 1965, the small city-state has explicitly committed to a policy of multiracialism and...
The smartphone in Saudi Arabia: between women’s empowerment and...
7 Oct 2025 6:10 AM ISTThe Saudi chargé d’affaires in Thailand then declared that the authorities should have deprived her of her phone, thereby revealing the unprecedented...
Editorial: MEA needs to do more for diaspora
6 Oct 2025 9:00 AM ISTThe crime wave against Indians is paralleled by a spike in racist content on social media specifically targeting Indian-origin people.
Moral contradictions: Colourful sex lives of Presbyterians in 18th-cen...
6 Oct 2025 6:50 AM ISTAs the Ordnance Survey Memoirs Observer for Rashee parish in County Antrim noted in 1835, while the Presbyterians of the north of Ireland...
