Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”
Sri Lanka’s senior Buddhist prelates deserve credit for ending the ten-day protest without overturning a court ruling. Yet the episode reveals how religious authority can be exploited for political ends, how vengeance
Former Sri Lankan parliamentarian Gevindu Cumaratunga has called on the government to explain the objectives of its proposed new Constitution, questioning what Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya means by an “all-inclusive” constitutional framework and how it would address the causes of
Sri Lanka has provided medical assistance to 27 Iranian sailors who fell ill aboard Iranian crude oil tankers anchored off the country’s southern coast,
Sri Lanka is expected to experience continued rainfall over the next several days as a depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into
Following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, Poverty, by America, published by Crown We imagine that their sufferings are one thing and our life another.—Leo Tolstoy Why is there so
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