Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. She is the co-author of Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals (Knopf Doubleday, 2024) and Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus (Penguin Random House, 2013), which is a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
The then German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the floodgates to refugees from underdeveloped and Muslim-majority countries, allowing them to enter Germany in the name of humanitarian policy. At that time, several well-meaning
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The Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) have sharply escalated their operations in 2026, with at least 23 security personnel killed in six BRG-linked incidents, according
For Sri Lanka, maritime security is not an abstract geopolitical concern. The island’s location near major shipping routes creates opportunities for trade, fisheries, and
For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society.
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