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Contributing Editor, Ideas @Time. Author, Curfewed Night, A Question of Order, Haider. Former @foreignaffairs, @nytopinion, @crisisgroup

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@PikettyWIL
Thomas Piketty
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the scale of #inequality over time and across space. The third edition of the report, prefaced by @JosephEStiglitz & @Jayati1609 comes at a challenging political
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@akm1410
Ashish K. Mishra
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Tech driven modern world’s most urgent human experiment begins today. The world-first ban on social media access for children goes in effect in Australia. Will be watching this very keenly.
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@CinemaRareIN
CinemaRare
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Indian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Oscars 2026.. #Homebound (2025) by @ghaywan, ft. #IshaanKhatter @vishaljethwa06 #JanhviKapoor @shalinivatsa1 & @ShreeDharDubey, out now on @NetflixIndia. #KaranJohar #MartinScorsese @BasharatPeer #SumitRoy
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@FT
Financial Times
@FT
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Blair out of running for Gaza ‘board of peace’
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Former UK prime minister dropped from consideration after objections from some Arab and Muslim states
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@ghaywan
Neeraj Ghaywan
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@madversity Thank you @madversity ! Happy that the film resonated with you 😊. IRL, crueler things have happened to the actual people. Mohammed Saiyub left for Dubai and did not take up education as shown in the film— again a privilege not many of us recognise. Amrit’s rotting body was
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@BasharatPeer
Basharat Peer
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RT @TIME: "The dynamics of the entire media industry are changing before our eyes." YouTube's Neal Mohan is TIME's CEO of the Year https://…
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@semafor
Semafor
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"I made two really, really good decisions in my life," New Yorker editor David Remnick tells @semaforben and @maxwelltani. "I married the right person ... and I didn't go on Twitter."
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@BasharatPeer
Basharat Peer
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‘What is hailed as a celebration of democracy was, at times, described as an exercise in biopolitics, in which a citizen's biometrics became the decisive marker for reward and retribution, @NabilAlMafrachi on Iraq in @TIME
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"Most Iraqis regard elections as a foregone formality and the reigning order as irredeemably flawed," writes Nabil Salih
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@BasharatPeer
Basharat Peer
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‘What is hailed as a celebration of democracy was, at times, described as an exercise in biopolitics, in which a citizen's biometrics became the decisive marker for reward and retribution, @NabilAlMafrachi on Iraq in @TIME
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"Most Iraqis regard elections as a foregone formality and the reigning order as irredeemably flawed," writes Nabil Salih
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@thantmyintu
Thant Myint-U
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Much to agree with in this magisterial @ForeignAffairs essay. But with all due respect to Professor Allison, what’s missing is extraordinary, as he neglects to even mention the key foundation of our post-war peace: the successful fight against colonialism; the ending of
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One of history’s greatest achievements is under threat.
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@PaulSalopek
Paul Salopek
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My piece in @NatGeo about the guerrilla balloonists who float subversive materials—essays on personal freedom, Bible tracts, scarce toiletries—into North Korea on gigantic homemade balloons. #Korea #balloons
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Inside a covert operation to bombard North Korea with pantyhose and nature films.
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@FareedZakaria
Fareed Zakaria
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Welcome to America’s new democratic export — the unchecked executive. It has journeyed from a modest, constitutionally constrained office to a super presidency that commands total attention and power. My latest column: https://t.co/AZFoyb2hw0
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A permissive Supreme Court and a supine Congress have turned the executive into something the Framers feared.
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@DropSiteNews
Drop Site
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Harvard professor Tarek Masoud suggests an “asymmetry” in Israeli–Palestinian negotiations where Israeli leaders arrive at U.S.-brokered talks “giving up” land that they claim historically — with Ehud Olmert saying he “felt like I was fainting” when offering parts of East
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@NewYorker
The New Yorker
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Imran Khan, who once ruled the sport of cricket from Karachi to Lord’s, and whose love life is tabloid fodder, is going to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. Revisit Steve Coll’s 2012 Profile on the sports legend: https://t.co/rD8TbrsoRG
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@MosabAbuToha
Mosab Abu Toha
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In May 2023, I returned to Gaza after I finished my studies at the US. While in the US, a friend of mine gifted me this NEW YORKER tote bag. When I went back to Gaza, I brought many books, some letters, and a few tote bags. Our house was bombed on Oct 28, 2023. We survived by
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@londonvinjamuri
Leslie Vinjamuri
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Read this piece by @GalipDalay on Trump and the Middle East - indispensable and unreliable ..
@TIME
TIME
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.@GalipDalay: The Middle East is adapting to Trump’s indispensable but unreliable America
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@DalrympleWill
William Dalrymple
1 month
@EmpirePodUK ... then we followed him to the Spanish Civil War... https://t.co/4Sands0izn
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@NewYorker
The New Yorker
1 month
Last month, El Fasher, in Sudan’s Darfur region, fell to rebel forces. “The world hasn’t caught up to what a big deal El Fasher is,” a humanitarian researcher at Yale said. “We are talking tens upon tens of thousands of potential dead in five days.”
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After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.
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@BasharatPeer
Basharat Peer
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A lovely evening in Delhi. @nkreports in conversation with @mukulkesavan at The Bookshop, Lodhi Market, about his beautiful novel, The Architect’s Dream, published by @PenguinIndia
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