From ancient kings who disciplined errant monks to modern political battles over Gnanasara Thera, Sri Lanka’s history raises an uncomfortable question: should the saffron robe shield its wearer from accountability? The controversy
Global Perspective on Leadership Development In the rapidly evolving landscape of the 21st century, the true measure of an educational system’s success lies not solely in students’ academic results, but rather in
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by Durga Chris Moore’s The Power of Guilt opens with a confession so extreme that it dares the reader to refuse him moral authority. “We had hit a group of fellow students
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Michael Jackson is impossible to escape. His music pulses through shopping centres, weddings, TikTok clips and jukebox musicals, while his image — white glove, tilted fedora, frozen moonwalk — remains one of
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by Eric Drew Miller’s Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is a book that dares to say out loud what most liberal democracies prefer to whisper, outsource to thrillers, or
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by Durga Fatima Bhutto’s The Hour of the Wolf arrives disguised as a book about animals, even as it quietly dismantles that premise almost from the start. What it becomes instead is
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The idea that the COVID-19 pandemic merely hastened deaths that were already imminent has been deeply embedded in public debate since the crisis began. But a sweeping new analysis suggests that assumption
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Sri Lanka has unveiled a comprehensive five-year National Strategic Action Plan to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking, signaling a renewed and strengthened commitment to eliminating trafficking in all its forms and improving
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Oxfam’s board of trustees has come under intense scrutiny, with a former trustee demanding their immediate resignation over failures in staff vetting processes that have reignited concerns about governance at the aid
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A sprawling black market for UK work visas is flourishing, with unregulated agents and licensed companies selling fraudulent “payroll-only” jobs that allow migrants to remain in Britain without doing any real work,
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Chinese researchers have found that an oral antiviral drug originally approved to treat Covid-19 shows significant activity against the Nipah virus, raising hopes for new ways to prevent and treat the emerging
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The World Health Organization has said the risk of further international spread of the Nipah virus from the latest outbreak in India remains low, adding that there is no evidence so far
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Oxfam has been investigated over major failures in its staff vetting processes, eight years after the charity was engulfed by the Haiti sexual abuse scandal that forced it to promise sweeping reforms.
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France’s lower house of parliament has approved legislation that would prohibit children under the age of 15 from using social media, a decisive step backed by President Emmanuel Macron as part of
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The Alpine village of Funes, once a quiet retreat known mainly to hikers and mountaineers, is taking decisive action to stem the flow of tourists after viral fame transformed it into a
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Tomorrow begins a new semester, and I’ll be teaching Constitutional Law. My course, co-taught with my colleague Peter Rosenblum, is not like the constitutional law courses I took in law school. We
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