CNN
A&S political scientist Fahd Humayun says “While public confidence in the country’s institutions has clearly fluctuated in the past few years, these elections, for all their flaws, have proven that there was considerable political mobilization around the issue of representation, and that should inspire hope for Pakistan’s future.”
The Conversation
A&S historian Ayesha Jalal discusses the aftermath of Pakistan's general election and what the next government may look like.
Wall Street Journal
Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian comments in this article examining the benefits and concerns around different types of cooking oils, noting there is strong evidence that “seed oils, which are rich in healthy, unsaturated fats, are really good for our health.”
Washington Post
Fletcher Professor Emeritus William Moomaw is quoted about the GHG Protocol, which is providing guidelines for farm and forestry emissions and impacting the companies that make climate-unfriendly products.
The Conversation
A&S historian Diego Javier Luis examines the spiritual life of colonial Latin America, where Spanish control “was far from absolute.”
The Conversation
Fletcher’s Tara D. Sonenshine examines historical U.S. immigration trends and looks at the current global response to immigration.
BBC
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal, director of the World Peace Foundation, joins BBC Newshour to discuss the memorandum of understanding Ethiopia has signed with the self-declared republic of Somaliland to use one of its ports. (His comments begin at 38:4.)
CNN
A&S political scientist Fahd Humayun comments on the political and economic uncertainty in Pakistan ahead of its crucial 2024 elections, noting “any government coming to power through suspicious elections is not only likely to be on a weak footing and reliant on the military for its political survival but will also be unlikely to attract the capital inflows so badly needed."
Al Jazeera
A&S anthropologist Amahl Bishara joins this The Listening Post segment to discuss the experience of Gaza journalists