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Jim Yong Kim starts his second term as World Bank president despite a rocky first five years
Jim Yong Kim is set to begin his second five-year term as World Bank president on July 1, having bee...
Bleached girls: India and its love for light skin
“Let’s scrub out that tan” is a common refrain in beauty parlours in India, where girls grow up with...
Minority histories of the Indian national flag
This week, India celebrates 70 years of independence. The tricolour flag, perhaps the most tangible...
How our environment can induce allergies even before we’re born
Is this the worst Northern Hemisphere allergy season yet? For many people – both those who’ve suffer...
Healing Colombia’s war
“The armed conflict took so much from us”, one young farmer and communications activist tells us, mo...
Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy gets one thing right but questions remain
Despite frequent past calls to disengage from Afghanistan after 16 years of US military involvement,...