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It is a time of fear and foreboding for Indians in America. Targeted in a string of attacks fuelled by racism, first in Kansas and now in Washington state, the Indian-American community is rattled, scared, and trying to come to terms with the unexpected violence seven weeks into Trump’s presidency. It’s an unusual feeling for […]

Will 81-year-old Tenzin Gyatso be the last Dalai Lama? The question has been haunting millions of Tibetan Buddhists, the Chinese Communist rulers, and the international community ever since the religious leader hinted a few years ago that he might not reincarnate at all. British comedian John Oliver recently flew to the north Indian town of […]

Today marks Ghana’s 60th year as an independent nation. The day is bittersweet. On one hand, I’m deeply proud of our relatively small nation that continues to punch far above our weight. I am proud of last December’s election which, despite its tensions and nail-biting conclusion, was handled with poise and dignity, and which some […]Read More

How do you solve a problem like inequality? Economic policymakers have been grappling with this for a long time, with varying degrees of urgency. The search for solutions has become increasingly serious since the 1980s, when inequality began rising again, recently reaching historic highs. But the problem has been solved before. After studying thousands of […]

Since their kidnapping by Boko Haram in 2014, only a couple dozen Chibok girls have been reunited with their parents. Some 21 girls were released last October following negotiations brokered by the Swiss government while another was rescued by armed forces six months earlier. The fate of the other 200 or so girls is largely […]

In the public conversation about the mass incarceration crisis in the US, there’s a widely accepted diagnosis for why the country’s prisons and jails are bursting at the seams. The story—propelled by academics, politicians, journalists, Oscar-nominated documentaries, and civic-minded celebrities—goes like this: The US prison population is ballooning because the “War on Drugs” needlessly put […]Read More

On March 8—International Women’s Day—women across the United States will have the opportunity to participate in the “A Day Without a Woman” strike. That’s a well-intentioned idea. But it’s likely that mostly privileged women will be the ones participating in the much-anticipated follow-up to January’s Women’s March. This is an unfortunate but not altogether surprising […]Read More

Banned Books Week, held this year from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, is an annual event designed to draw national attention to the harms of censorship. Created in 1982 by the American Library Association in response to a growing number of “challenged” books in schools and libraries, the week is really about celebrating the freedom […]

One morning last week, I opened the office refrigerator and saw that a gallon of milk had spilled inside. It was 8:30am, and I was facing my first moral test of the day: Would I clean it up, or shut the door and slowly back away? At my old job, I’m sad to say, I […]

People who have sex more frequently report a greater sense of general happiness, according to numerous studies. One even found that having sex once a week, as opposed to monthly, boosts spirits more than earning an extra $50,000 per year. Yet the sex-happiness association means nothing if we don’t know why it exists. New research […]

If you’re looking to move but can’t find the house of your dreams, you may be able to just print out what you’re after in the near future. A San Francisco-based 3D-printing startup, Apis Cor, has come up an exceedingly affordable solution for building new houses. It can 3D-print concrete walls for a small house […]Read More

“Alexa, order me a new you.” Amazon intends to release at least one new device this year that utilizes the company’s voice-assistant technology, Alexa, according to a report from Recode Friday. One of the biggest changes would be a function that allows people to speak through the device to someone else who also has an […]