Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India—and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India—and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned
How the cheap, unhealthy oil became the high-fructose corn syrup of the developing world.
Sep 17, 2018 / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
The IMF’s ‘Large Brain, Unhealthy Ego, and Tiny Conscience’ The IMF’s ‘Large Brain, Unhealthy Ego, and Tiny Conscience’
The reforms to the IMF since the global financial crisis have amounted to window dressing.
Sep 14, 2018 / Lauren Carasik
Team Trump’s Magical Thinking on Palestine Team Trump’s Magical Thinking on Palestine
The administration has a predilection for disruptive gestures, but it’s not such a radical departure from decades of US policy.
Sep 14, 2018 / Mouin Rabbani
The Strange, Long Afterlife of an Inhumane Colonial Law The Strange, Long Afterlife of an Inhumane Colonial Law
Homophobia in India is an alien import with shallow roots.
Sep 14, 2018 / Siddharth Dube
Was Oslo Doomed From the Start? Was Oslo Doomed From the Start?
“I remember the nice days where there was peace without agreement. Now we have agreement without peace.”
Sep 13, 2018 / Sandy Tolan
25 Years After the Oslo Accords, Independence Remains More Elusive than Ever for Palestinians 25 Years After the Oslo Accords, Independence Remains More Elusive than Ever for Palestinians
The time has long since come to embrace a new paradigm based on equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel.
Sep 13, 2018 / Rashid Khalidi
‘Overtourism’ Is Driving Europeans Crazy ‘Overtourism’ Is Driving Europeans Crazy
Is anti-tourist sentiment code for classism, racism, and xenophobia, or a legitimate concern over a city's capacity to accommodate visitors?
Sep 12, 2018 / Jessica Loudis
Trump Creates a Worldwide Border Crisis for Refugees Trump Creates a Worldwide Border Crisis for Refugees
By slashing the number of refugees it is willing to take in, the United States is abrogating its humanitarian duty.
Sep 12, 2018 / Michelle Chen
Moon and Kim Try to Keep the Korea Peace Train on Course Moon and Kim Try to Keep the Korea Peace Train on Course
But growing splits between Washington and the two Koreas threaten progress.
Sep 11, 2018 / Tim Shorrock
17 Years after September 11, Will We Learn to Love Our Enemies? 17 Years after September 11, Will We Learn to Love Our Enemies?
The unrelenting mentality of entrenched conflict against a permanent enemy has infected American domestic life, creating a bitter political and cultural divide.
Sep 11, 2018 / Steven Paulikas