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1 week ago | dtnext.in | Peter Singer

Global health and development are too dependent on Western charity. The status quo was always going to unravel eventually. Since President Trump took office for the second time more than 100 days ago, he has initiated the largest remaking of this system in decades — beginning with the announcement that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organisation and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development. The consequences are dire.

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci When I joined protests against the looming Iraq invasion in 2002, my American friends thought I was being exceptionally brave because I was only here on a student visa. I laughed. I also laughed when my fellow protesters angrily chanted, “This is what a police state looks like!” at the police cars idling across the street while officers ambled around. You have no idea what an actual police state looks like, I told my friends.

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Lydia Polgreen

A few weeks ago, I tried to return an item I had mistakenly ordered from Amazon. The website said I needed to contact customer service, but when I clicked the link, it took me to an artificial intelligence bot that provided no answers, just a link back to the place I started. This was a faceless and hopeless process with no clear avenue of appeal. Despite Amazon’s supposedly friendly logo — an arrow shaped like a smile — the process seemed designed to get me to give up, which I promptly did.

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Ron Johnson |Brendan Case

Ron Johnson, Brendan Case and Tyler J. VanderWeeleAccording to the 2025 World Happiness Report, which was released last month, the happiest country in the world is Finland, trailed closely by Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. This news came as no surprise. The report, released annually since 2012 by a consortium of groups including Gallup, often features these four Nordic nations — all of them stable democracies with prosperous and healthy citizens — at or near the top of its list.

2 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Jamelle Bouie

NEW DELHI: There is no question that Donald Trump’s ambition in the first 100 days of his return to the Oval Office was to set a new standard for presidential accomplishment. To rival, even surpass, the scope of Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts nearly a century ago, when he moved so quickly — and so decisively — that he established the first 100 days as a yardstick for executive action.