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Several members of my family in India got COVID, so I flew home to help. While the US reopens, India is still deep in crisis.
Several members of my family in India got COVID, so I flew home to help. While the US reopens, India is still deep in crisis.
Amitoj SinghMay 22, 2021, 18:23 IST
Multiple funeral pyres of those who died of COVID-19 burn at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for the mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021.Altaf Qadri/AP
With 24 hours notice, I flew from New York to New Delhi to help my father care for sick family members.
Britain s photo ID system undermines the democracy it is trying to preserve
Parisa HashempourMay 22, 2021, 19:28 IST
A voter leaves a polling location in the UK.Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
The Queen announced that
elections.
In a country where an estimated quarter of voters lack ID, the move undermines democracy and disproportionately harms marginalized citizens.
With extraordinarily low levels of electoral fraud conviction in the UK, the scheme will fortify the Conservatives stronghold and is an expensive distraction from much-needed social reform.
Parisa Hashempour is a freelance journalist and International Studies lecturer living in the Netherlands.
This is an
opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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The politically-powerful teachers unions say they re ready to send their members back to work, now that the COVID pandemic is effectively over.
And yet as a NYC public school parent, I don t believe my kids will have full-time, in-person, five-day-a-week learning this September.
Because with the teachers unions there s always a but just as there is this time.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
One of the US major teachers unions has, at long last, come around to admitting its members should be back in school, full-time, this fall. It s a huge, albeit long-delayed, development. But as a parent of three school-aged kids, count me as still skeptical.