Edit & Opinions
World opens to the Taliban despite their shredding of women’s rights
The diplomatic activity reflects a subtle but significant shift toward normalizing the Taliban as political leaders and away from treating them as...
OpenAI Hires Former White House Official as Its Chief Economist
OpenAI hopes to eventually build AI that changes office work, scientific research and many other tasks, and the company acknowledges that its...
Four years in jail without trial: The price of dissent in Modi’s India
“Everyone get in the frame, please,” he urged when he was unable to see a face but could hear a familiar voice.
Editorial: The response to Ganderbal
The prospect of a return to civic normalcy and the olive branches offered to Jaishankar by the Pakistani leadership triggered a bloody response by the...
A New Paradigm for Standing Forests
Individuals, countries, and NGOs are stepping up to protect and preserve the world’s forests from devastation.
What Lincoln Can Tell Us About MAGA
Lincoln argued that slave owners’ quarrel with the free states wasn’t that Northerners were hurting their material interests — they weren’t to any...
Can a Synthetic Voice Be Taught to Sing Opera?
The voice, an uncanny combination of expressive directness and can’t-quite-place-it strangeness, moved from one note to the next with the slick...
Editorial: Air scare
In the backdrop of as many as 100 flights of Indian origin bearing the brunt of hoax bomb threats, it might help to examine the financial implications...
