I know what you’re thinking — ”Another North Korea summit? But wasn’t the great dealmaker in chief supposed to have solved everything with the last one?” I mean, sure. He was. Kind of. But...
In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, Oriana Skylar Mastro writes that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being financed via loans given to developing countries “without the usual...
PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda is a film I’ve been raving about since catching it at Hot Docs last spring. It’s the story of Jennifer Laude – Filipina, trans and a sometime sex worker – whose...
Whaling has been a major part of Japanese culture for well over 1,000 years. In times gone, an old Japanese proverb spoke to the efficiency of the practice: "There's nothing to throw away from a...
I was recently approached to work on a script. At first I was pretty excited about it. It was the brainchild of someone I’d worked with before, someone I liked and had worked well with on previous...
“What is that?” My friend asked me this when she saw the little “altar” I’d set up in the corner of my living room. I say “altar” because it’s not really an altar. Calling it such...
Kalpana Chawla was born into a culture that didn’t necessarily share the big plans she had for herself. Born in Karnal, India in 1961, the youngest of four, a future as wife and mother was expected...
Once upon a time, mukashi mukashi, there lived a beautiful woman in Yotsuya named Oiwa. A ronin (a masterless samurai) named Iemon wanted to marry Oiwa, but her father knew of Iemon’s misdeeds and...
When you donate to a massive charity like Oxfam, you know that some of your cash goes to maintain the shiny corporate image of the organisation but you also imagine the bulk of your donation going...
In early February, it was reported that the United Nations envoy to Myanmar had uncovered numerous mass graves filled with the chemically-charred corpses of an untold number of Rohingya Muslims,...