The New Yorker4d
The Long Nap of the Lazy Bureaucrat
The stereotype of the unmotivated official, which has fuelled Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on government workers, has ...
The price of standing out in Xi Jinping’s China
In the gripping ‘Let Only Red Flowers Bloom,’ reporter Emily Feng writes about people who faced consequences for failing to ...
The Iranian Dissident Asking Simple Questions
The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...
National Geographic news6d
How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
Watching Jiang Wannian and Ping Cuixiang harvest a sixth of an acre of daikon seed in the north-central province of Gansu feels a little like ... period under Mao Zedong, when the state told ...
Council on Foreign Relations1d
The Dalai Lama’s Testament
In the Dalai Lama’s new memoir, Voice for the Voiceless, the spiritual leader directly addresses Tibet’s struggle for ...
Everyone’s personal data is being extracted, and no one seems to care
Google is one of the greatest offenders when it comes to collecting personal data. The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo blocks online trackers from collecting data about you and doesn’t save ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel1d
Why the Left is not by definition ‘right’: 3 historical examples
Traditionally, the Left claims that it supports the weak, champions the case of the oppressed and carries the banner of ...