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The Age of Trump

The Age of Trump
Illustration: Yogendra Anand/ CSE

Climate change is an inconvenient footnote in Donald Trump’s historical battle for global supremacy

The Circularity Argument

Steel Authority of India Ltd’s Bhilai Steel Plant generates  2 million tonnes of basic oxygen furnace slag in a year
Steel Authority of India Ltd’s Bhilai Steel Plant generates 2 million tonnes of basic oxygen furnace slag in a year Photograph: CSE photo

Industries in India are innovating to reuse high-volume wastes, and show that the transition to circular economy can usher in both environmental and financial windfalls

Threat to Survival

Guardians of Hollongapar
A Hoolock GibbonPhoto: iStock

Hydrocarbon exploration threatens India’s only ape species, hoolock gibbon, found in Assam’s Jorhat district

Banking on flawed drug VLs

Banking on flawed drug voluntary licences
Illustration: Yogendra Anand / CSE

The Medicines Patent Pool is pushing for more voluntary licences (VLs), but its bad deal with Novartis on a cancer drug shows the pitfalls

The inheritance effect

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Most of the world’s young billionaires have inherited their riches. This is a sign that ‘billionaire colonialism’ is setting in

‘Migration is going to be a battlefield’

Western societies cannot do without migrants: Amitav Ghosh
Amitav GhoshPhoto: Vikas Choudhary / CSE

Amitav Ghosh on the future of human movement and an increasingly xenophobic polity

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