To all well-wishers on Teachers’ Day, this is a letter from a teacher
The Hinduby Neeraja Raghavan5 Sept 2026
Dear friends, I am a school teacher, and I know that I will receive many good wishes on the 5th of September, as always.
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top 92%The long game: What will Tinubu leave behind (2)?, By Adeola Akinremi
Premium Timesby Premium Times5 Sept 2026
…a leader’s true test is not only what he does with power. It is what he leaves standing after he has gone: institutions that can survive him, people who can outperform him, systems that do not...
Paulo Freire's pedagogy to read the world and the word
The Hinduby Gokul C5 Sept 2026
A teacher walks into a classroom, greets her students, opens a textbook and begins narrating a lesson.
Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The most important thing for Mexico is to stop being just a low-cost manufacturer for US companies’
El País Englishby Sonia Corona5 Sept 2026
Mariana Mazzucato, 58, fondly recalls the year she spent in Mexico as an exchange student in 1989.
Argentina’s Milei wants women to have more children while he cuts support for families
El País Englishby Delfina Torres5 Sept 2026
From the stage of a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Javier Milei recently took aim at one of his recurring targets: women, whom he blames for the decline in birth rates that...
Harsh Mander: Hindutva’s boycott calls seek the economic erasure of India’s Muslims
Scroll.inby Harsh Mander5 Sept 2026
The organised economic boycott of vulnerable and oppressed communities has scarred Indian society for millennia.
The Bad, the Worse and the Peronists
Buenos Aires Timesby Marcelo J. García5 Sept 2026
Ask around at a meeting of family or friends these days about the general mood about the President Javier Milei administration and the consensus is that it is not good – in line with current...
Time to batten down the hatches
Buenos Aires Timesby James Grainger5 Sept 2026
Argentina's economy may still be a rickety and woefully unproductive affair but, thanks to Javier Milei’s single-minded determination to reduce public spending to a sustainable level and the...
How Yikvot, a Kashmiri language preservation platform, hopes to help youth take to the language
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath5 Sept 2026
In 2023, Seerat Hafiz, who studied conflict studies and psychology in college and university, founded Yikvot, which means “together” in Kashmiri, to preserve the Kashmiri language and culture, and...
A Constitution on paper, constitutionalism in practice: Lessons for India
The South Firstby Faisal C.K.5 Sept 2026
Synopsis: As world leaders like Andy Burnham debate codified charters, history proves that written constitutions mean little without underlying political culture.
For Monique Gray Smith, ‘Love is Medicine’ | The Tyee
The Tyeeby Katie Hyslop5 Sept 2026
A conversation with Victoria-based author Monique Gray Smith, even one held via the shaky digital portal that is a Zoom call, can feel like a warm embrace from a dear friend.
Deep Window Seats and Cozy Reading Nooks Heighten the Magic of This English Farmhouse
Architectural Digestby Camille Okhio4 Sept 2026
Centuries of Austen, Milton, and Shakespeare have left us with myriad fantasies about life in the English countryside.
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Marco.orgby Marco Arment4 Sept 2026
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus...
Friday Sermon: Combatting lying and mischief-making, and the prohibition of hiding the truth, By Murtadha Gusau
Premium Timesby Ololade Bamidele4 Sept 2026
What is the essence of this truthfulness on which Allah promises the best reward and salvation from torment? Truthfulness means to be sincere in sayings and deeds.
Himalayan nations must unite to help science help them
New Indian Expressby Pema Gyamtsho4 Sept 2026
On the morning of August 26, within minutes, a flash flood swept through the Nepal-Tibet border region, taking homes, livelihoods, and lives with it.
Where did ₹6 lakh crore go? Nowhere
New Indian Expressby Gourav Vallabh4 Sept 2026
Over the past few days, a few commentators have stirred a controversy around India’s latest GDP release.
Today's Horoscope - September 5, 2026: Check horoscope for all sun signs
Deccan Heraldby Amara Ramdev4 Sept 2026
Today's Horoscope - September 5, 2026: Check horoscope for all sun signs Published 04 September 2026, 18:17 IST March 21 - April 20 ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20): Talks with business people may lead to...
Writing With Unnatural Constraints
Daring Fireballby John Gruber4 Sept 2026
By John Gruber Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung, regarding a rather subtly astonishing FAQ for the game Super Metroid, written in the late 1990s by “rs1n”.
The legacy of Gloria Steinem: A woman who mattered
The Conversation Canadaby Rebecca Sullivan, Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary4 Sept 2026
Ten years ago, I had the honour of meeting Gloria Steinem. It was International Women’s Day 2016: Donald Trump was a joke that would supposedly never happen and #MeToo was still two years away.
White House Posts Racist Video Game Knockoffs on Its Website
Polygon.comby Elijah Gonzalez4 Sept 2026
The Trump administration has a strange obsession with stealing from video games to push its gross agenda.