New Delhi’s Soft Power Push
By Harsh V. Pant Yale Global During his travels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a point of promoting India’s soft power – including Bollywood, Sufi music and yoga as […]
By Harsh V. Pant Yale Global During his travels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a point of promoting India’s soft power – including Bollywood, Sufi music and yoga as […]
By Juan Zarate & Chip Poncy The Washington Post As Congress considers the Iranian nuclear deal, it should also prepare a strategy to use U.S. financial and economic power aggressively […]
By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]
By Kevin McGwin The Arctic Journal “The Leiv Eriksson is perhaps the most controversial oil rig anywhere on the planet.” That was the assessment made in 2011 by Ben Ayliffe, […]
By Masha Gessen Harper’s Magazine Finns find it difficult to talk about the Winter War. Its history—both the official version in the schoolbooks and the unofficial version recalled by the […]
By Aliya Sternstein Defense One The intelligence community this month quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified five-year-roadmap charting the future of data analysis it wants commercial startups like ride-sharing firm Uber to read. […]
By Lauren Kirchner Pacific Standard “First of all, let’s get one thing straight: crack is cheap,” Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer, defiantly, in a now-infamous 2002 interview. “I make too […]
By Ian Sample The Guardian For much of history, people sought to halt ageing to achieve immortality – or at least to live for hundreds of years. These days, scientists […]
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman, & Dana Goldstein FiveThirtyEight Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges […]
By Andreas Kuersten Arctic Summer College The Arctic is most famous for its frigid expanses of snow and ice and the massive mammals that traverse these environments – e.g. polar […]