Malik Sajad, a writer and visual artist, is the author of the graphic novel, “Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir.” Source: Read Full Article

What makes people susceptible to fake news and other forms of strategic misinformation? And what, if anything, can be done about it? These questions have become more urgent in recent years, not least because of revelations about the Russian campaign to influence the 2016 United States presidential election by disseminating propaganda through social media platforms. […]

BERKELEY, Calif. — A few months ago in Chicago, where I was visiting for a wedding, a department store clerk asked me what kind of accent I had. I admitted it was Russian. “Would you take our president home with you?” he asked. His question threw into sharp relief my predicament: As a liberal Russian […]

We are all environmentalists now, aren’t we? We are all converts to the idea that we must save the planet by living sustainably. Young people, in particular, are embracing a “greener” lifestyle. Climate change, we are told, is the greatest threat to our universal civilisation. And there is one simple alteration that each one of […]

Donald Trump’s job approval rating now stands at a paltry 39 percent, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, while his disapproval rating is 53 percent — a net decline of seven percentage points from last month when the government shutdown began. No surprise there. What’s surprising, and potentially more hope-inspiring, is that the president’s […]

A Peterborough couple is elated after their cat, who disappeared for more than two months, was found and returned home this week. Dennis and Lori Thompson say their cat Victor disappeared in early November after he failed to return home from one of his regular jaunts outside. “He had a habit of going out the […]

To the Editor: Re “Owners Tied to Plan to Hide OxyContin Risk” (Business Day, Jan. 16), documenting the talking points of Richard Sackler, then the president of Purdue Pharma, while misleading the public in 2001: I met with a representative of Purdue Pharma around that time while an editorial writer with The Day of New […]

Police in Pennsylvania are looking for few volunteers who would be willing to get drunk and allow for officers to conduct field sobriety test training on them. On Wednesday, the Kutztown Police Department put out a call on social media, looking for three volunteers to drink hard liquor to the point of intoxication. “Alcohol will […]

This is a fine time to be British. Indeed, to be proud to be British. You would not, to be sure, think so from this past week in London – as the House of Commons humiliated Prime Minister Theresa May by throwing out her plan for Brexit in Tuesday by 432 votes to 202 – […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French asset manager Amundi (AMUN.PA) said on Friday it bought the 51 percent stake it didn’t own in fintech Anatec. Europe’s largest asset manager, which is controlled by French bank Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) didn’t disclose the amount of the transaction. Anatec, which operates under the WeSave brand, is a digital aggregator of […]