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Hunting the whale
The game targets at-risk youth for manipulation.
Zarrar Khuhro
First contact
Would we even know it if we encountered aliens?
Posthuman age
Wonders and terrors are promised in equal measure.
Robocalypse now?
Teachers, actors and even journalists aren’t safe anymore.
Spirit of ’62
The Indo-China war’s role in regional politics is often ignored.
Brutish celebrations
Bullets fired into the air won’t harmlessly float down.
Blowback?
Who listened when Muslims reported a potential terrorist?
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
We have joined in the crusade to muzzle social media.
Broken news
What caused the electronic media to hold back?
The abyss stares
How deep is the network of child sexual abuse?
Cancer with purpose
The harvest of hate has ripened.
Pit and pendulum
Better to send a retired general than a military contingent.
Upside of outrage
Politicians making lewd remarks are now taken to task.
Psychic spies
The tradition of seeking occult advice has persisted through the ages.
Apologia
It is in the shadow of our silence that evil thrives.
Dark brotherhoods
It is a world that is a mirror image of the one Daesh’s adherents live in.
Reformation
The Election Bill 2017 limits access to information.
What everyone is missing about the Tayyaba case
Once the spotlight moves on, her family will probably rent her out once again.
Thinking small
Examples abound of communities finding low-cost solutions.
Unnatural selection
We’ve forced species to evolve at a rate rarely seen in nature.