By Abhirup Bhunia

Legislators across the developed world are hurriedly stringing together laws to tighten control on borders to prevent escalating immigration, an international phenomenon that is only to be anticipated in a world that refuses to retreat from the globalization fiesta. Antipathy towards immigrants is a shared trait among the far right parties of Europe, America and Australia. But cutting back global migration is tantamount to shortsightedness. The future in respect of migration is anybody’s guess, but it is certainly reckless to overlook the mutual benefits that liberalized borders accrue to humanity. 

By Paul Woodward

When terrorism has a white face it invariably gets marginalized in the popular narrative. The lone wolf, the outsider, the sociopath — in many cases these portraits of misanthropic, isolated individuals who turn to violence are quite accurate.