—Father Flynn, Doubt In John Patrick Shanley’s 2008 film Doubt, certainty and ambiguity collide in a moral thriller set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 New York. The story revolves around Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a strict headmistress convinced that Father Flynn, a charismatic parish priest, has engaged in inappropriate conduct with a young African-American student. But…
Donald Trump has sought to dismiss Signalgate as “the only glitch” in his two months as US president for the second time. But this will not wash with others around the world. Indeed, not even in the US. Even more bizarre than the accidental inclusion of a publication’s editor in a Signal chat on a…
At the World Bank, he installed David Malpass but otherwise left the institution untouched. He kept David Lipton, an advisor to Democrats, in place as the IMF’s number two official, an appointment that is traditionally the prerogative of US presidents. Also Read: Data at threat: The Trump administration’s war on statistics won’t end we Trump’s…
These data-sets managed to generate the usual commentary, controversy and divided opinions about the state of India’s economic well-being, despite a newly elected president halfway across the world stealing some of the thunder. It might be time, though, to start talking about whether it is proper to lavish so much undivided attention on these data…
Thousands, mostly women protesters march against the runaway cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination remains deeply embedded…
US President Donald Trump and his vice-president, J.D. Vance, are spinning Friday’s Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a show of American strength towards an ungrateful supplicant. However, their joint dressing down of Zelensky will go down in history and live in infamy as a shameful moment of American betrayal. Trump and…
High-school physics textbooks tell us that the gravitational pull between two objects is determined by three factors—the weight of the two objects, the distance between them and a universal gravitational constant. The gravitational force is directly proportional to the mass of each object, while it is inversely proportional to the distance between them. This idea…
Geopolitical observers have had their jaws drop repeatedly in recent weeks by what looks like an extraordinary cosiness between Cold War arch-rivals Russia and the US. Also Read: The Russian invasion and the demise of the post-cold war dream On Monday, the US displayed another tilt away from Europe in favour of Russia at the…
The rhetoric from the White House signals a new world order that is nasty and brutish and in which might makes right Source link
The country’s current political crisis stems from the failure to hold elections on December 24, 2021, and the refusal of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to step down. File | Photo Credit: AP The top U.N. official in Libya warned Tuesday (August 20, 2024) that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north…
