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Science and Pseudoscience in India
Modi’s false hope in a raging pandemic.

Biden’s Democracy Agenda Faces First Big Test in Gaza
To break the cycle of violence, the United States could try to make both Israel and Palestine more responsive democracies.

The Colonial Pipeline Crisis Is a Taste of Things to Come
Biden must act now to protect the energy system from the rising threat of cyberattacks and natural disasters.

Israel Is Bluffing About Ever Invading Gaza
Talk about sending ground troops to definitively defeat Hamas is nothing more than an idle threat.

What Biden Is—and Isn’t—Willing to Do for Palestinians
The new U.S. president wants to help, but he may not be prepared to pay the price.

Israel’s War Will Never End
For Israelis and Palestinians, ethnic violence isn't a temporary problem. It’s a lasting identity.

No Peace Process Means No Peace
If Palestinians have no hope of a capital in East Jerusalem, Israelis will have little hope of normality.

Tulipmania in Space
SPACs are creating a space bubble that will eventually come crashing back to Earth along with cosmic junk launched during the current frenzy.

Big Pharma’s Patent Defeat Shows Corporate America Losing Power
The unloved industry could try to fight Biden—or get behind the global drive to vaccinate.

COVID-19 Is India’s Great Leveler
The coronavirus pandemic has flattened the country’s social order and turned its political divisions upside down.

How Wars End
The shifting nature of war has made peacemaking more difficult. A new kind of back-channel diplomacy can help.

Stopping Drug Patents Has Stopped Pandemics Before
Loosening property rules over coronavirus vaccines is likely to accelerate—not stifle—the pharmaceutical industry’s creativity.

America Is Becoming a Social Democracy
The Biden administration is accomplishing what was once thought historically impossible.

Israel’s Apartheid Doesn’t Make a Difference
A new report about the Israel-Palestine conflict is morally damning—and politically irrelevant.

As Modi’s BJP Stalls, Can the Congress Party Rev Up?
Last week’s elections showed the Hindu nationalist party isn’t invincible, but the opposition will need to change tactics if it wants to stage a comeback.