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is an economic policy analyst in the Economics and Statistics Unit at the Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States in Tamil Nadu, India. He is an alumnus of the Centre of Development Studies, ...

French troops on the road from Nam Định to Thái Bình City in Vietnam, May 1954. Photo by Robert Capa/Magnum Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, ...

is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (2025). As I cycle from downtown ...

is an evolutionary biologist who specialises in population genetics and phylogenetics of shovel bugs. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the ...

Raina the Rhodesian ridgeback and Ruuxa the cheetah at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, 2015. Photo by Sandy Huffaker/The New York Times/Headpress ...