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Establishment Pundits Call for a Return to “Reasonableness”  Over the course of the last 5 to 10 years there have been an array of celebrity pundits, journalists and politically oriented personalities speaking about a collective need to return to “sanity” and/or “reasonableness”. Here I’m referring to people like Thomas Friedman, Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Sam…

SIPRI is co-hosting ‘Military AI: International Law and Governance’, a two-day capacity-building course organized in collaboration with the Asser Institute.

On Friday, February 6, 2026, another in a series of evenings inspired by documentaries from the FICNOVA International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence took place in Prague. The festival was launched last year in Prague as part of the third World March for Peace and Nonviolence and is jointly organized by several organizations: the humanist…

On Friday, February 6, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order—the thirteenth since taking office—to protect New York’s immigrants from the Trump administration’s abuses. New York is a so-called “sanctuary city,” which limits cooperation with ICE and refuses to detain or refer undocumented immigrants for deportation. This order reinforces the direction it…

Several years ago, I read an interesting article about a place where urban planning had favored the periphery over the center; this concept gave rise to modern network cities, a system of nodes where each becomes a center. The idea immediately struck me as much more democratic and horizontal than the classic vision of a…

Last week, the US government announced it would be sending $6 million in aid to Cuba, on top of the $3 million it sent in January after Hurricane Melissa. This aid package might appear contrary to the significant escalation of the 66-year-long US criminal blockade, which has expanded all-out fuel blockade since December, with attacks…

The following report was written by La Ruta del Clima, a leading Latin American NGO on climate change, focused on political advocacy to promote citizen participation, with international recognition and standing. On January 14, 2026, we began the year with an event that was deeply relevant to the political, social, and environmental context facing the region.…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s interim government is poised to sign a tariff agreement with the United States on 9 February(Monday), just two days before the country’s 13th national parliamentary election. The move has sparked unease among business leaders, economists, and political observers over transparency, timing, and long-term implications. The agreement, expected to…