Can Iraq's new PM solve the country's electricity crisis?

Solving the country's acute power shortage is a priority for Zaidi, who is looking to strike much-needed investment deals with US companies, whilst also keeping Iran onside

Sharif Mohammad

The Great Free-Speech Reversal

There is a rich historical irony to the fact that today, conservatives are the ones who argue most forcefully that the decisions by private companies to “deplatform” certain speakers threaten what…

Genevieve Lakier

India Has a Fake-Jobs Problem

OnJuly 1, a few days after a woman inIndiaregistered for an account on the careers siteNaukri.comand uploaded a resume, a recruiter called her: One of the country’s leading real-estate companies was…

Snigdha Poonam

What Will Happen to Cities in 2021?

The post-pandemic world approaches. According to some projections, up to half of all Americans could be vaccinated by June, and another 30 percent may have acquired natural immunity through infection…

Derek Thompson