Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time Via Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo of Human Bridges “Western society is largely in the grips of an entrenched mythology that premodern non-Western states and empires were organized despotically, markedly different from how humans govern themselves in the…

FEBRUARY 23, 2024 GAUTAM BHATIA [This is a guest post by Kieran Correia.] On 15 February, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court handed down judgement in Association for Democratic Norms v Union of India, popularly known as the Electoral Bonds Case. Two opinions were issued – the majority opinion authored by Chandrachud CJI, joined by Gavai, Pardiwala, and Misra…

No. 8 | Journalism on trial   Dear friend, As Western powers fuel a genocide in Gaza that has killed scores of journalists and crushed press freedom across Palestine, journalism itself was put on trial this week.   On Tuesday and Wednesday, the London High Court sat to hear Julian Assange’s extradition case to the…

The president-elect, once accused of war crimes, has rebranded himself as a cuddly grandpa. President-elect Prabowo Subianto and Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images.) “Do you all want to see me dance?” He called to the crowd, which roared back its approval. The short and almost spherical…

Here’s a good — well-planned, revealing, and meticulously documented and verified — investigation by Newslaundry and The News Minute into the patterns of political funding in India: ‘Part 1: Behind the BJP’s rise and rise, bonds, trusts and raids on corporates’: ‘Corporate funding of politics is a controversial subject. More so in India, where most…