Bangladesh Quota Furore

As India’s quick-commerce frenzy collides with labour unrest and tightening economics, the race for ever-faster deliveries is being forced to slow down. Earlier this year, mass protests by gig workers exposed the hidden costs of the 10-minute promise. One logistics company, howev ...  Show more

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Bangladesh is roiled in the most intense protests and domestic upheaval in decades. The protests began peacefully by students objecting to a quota system for government jobs, in which government jobs are mostly reserved for those who fought in the 1971 war for independence and th ...  Show more

Leila is joined by Swiss-Syrian academic, researcher and author Joseph Daher to talk about the removal of sanctions and future economic prospects for Syria. Daher is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019) and Hezbollah: The ...  Show more

Even as the end of the shutdown is in sight, it will be some time before U.S. flights are operating normally. One of President Trump’s top supporters in the House – Marjorie Taylor Greene – pushes back after he says she’s “lost her way.” And Australian teenagers will have to down ...  Show more