The city and village council elections in May will also be held independently of the presidential race for the first time, a change that further distinguishes them from previous electoral cycles.
City council contests are significant to political…

The city and village council elections in May will also be held independently of the presidential race for the first time, a change that further distinguishes them from previous electoral cycles.
City council contests are significant to political…

The Jewish community in general, and the Zionists among them in particular, are understandably high-strung right now. Political opposition to Israel and intellectual opposition to Zionism have morphed with old-school, publicly displayed…

Tensions are growing after the killing of a student leader in last year’s revolt, which toppled Sheikh Hasina.
Tensions are growing in Bangladesh after the killing of a student leader of last year’s uprising that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh…




The country has seen a wave of recent mass abductions, as it suffers from multiple interlinked security concerns.
Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November,…

Claiming that anti-Zionism is always antisemitism makes it harder to defend Zionism and harder to fight antisemitism because it muddles both terms. We need to understand anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and how to tell the difference.
I am a…

It’s been two and a half months since the US brokered ceasefire in Gaza came into effect and now some cautious signs of progress in the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory.
The United Nations’ Children’s Fund says famine has been…