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A make or break year

Expect some stiff targets, radical policy measures and rapid innovations as polycrisis reaches a crescendo this year

US drug regulator faces Trump heat

US drug regulator faces Trump heat
Illustration: Yogendra Anand

The risky agenda of Trump aide Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to gut the FDA to make drug approvals easy and quick

Vote of despair

Project 2025: Key takeaways from ‘Year of Elections’
2024 saw many right-wing parties coming to power, in Europe and the US, besides other countriesGino Santa Maria via iStock

One message from the biggest electoral year in history is that people wanted change, for whatever reason

Commons in crisis

The house in Patiala’s Rohar Jagir village that sparked the landmark 2011 Supreme Court judgement to protect India’s commons. Owner Jagpal Singh now uses it to park his harvester and store farm implements. Despite the ruling, the sarpanch says the 80 houses encroaching upon the village pond were never demolished due to fears of backlash
The house in Patiala’s Rohar Jagir village that sparked the landmark 2011 Supreme Court judgement to protect India’s commons. Owner Jagpal Singh now uses it to park his harvester and store farm implements. Despite the ruling, the sarpanch says the 80 houses encroaching upon the village pond were never demolished due to fears of backlashPhotographs: Himanshu N

A landmark 2011 Supreme Court ruling to protect shared resources deepens struggles for India’s marginalised communities

The story of human origin is still not over

‘Story of human origin is still not figured out or over’
Photo courtesy of Arizona State University

Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie on his discoveries that pushed the understanding of human origins back to five million years

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