In Thailand, Elephant Sashimi is All the Rage
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 30, 2012
A growing taste for elephant meat in Thailand adds to the growing list of endangered animals winding up on people's plates.
Categories: Asian, Environment, Featured Columnists, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: andrewlam, ap, deforestation, elephant, endangered, environment, poaching, thailand
Obama’s America: More Warren Buffett’s Secretary, Than Warren Buffett
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 25, 2012
Obama's State of the Union address had a muted tone, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Categories: Featured Columnists, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: 2012stateoftheunion, obama, stateoftheunion
Tigers: Man-Eaters Eaten by Man
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 20, 2012
Tigers are being poached, eaten, made into medicine, and the demand is at an all-time high even as they face extinction.
Categories: Asian, Economy, Environment, Featured Columnists, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, food
Tags: china, consumption, extinction, food, illegal, medicine, nature, poaching, tiger, vietnam, wild life
Pakistan Has Always Been a Negative Identity: Aatish Taseer
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Jan 11, 2012
Noon is a novel but in Aatish Taseer’s work, the lines between fiction and non-fiction, novel and memoir can appear blurry.
Categories: Featured Columnists, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: Aatish Taseer, identity, indian, islam, Kashmir, noon, pakistan, violence
Republican Primaries: the Quest for the Ultimate Outsider
Firstpost.com, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 09, 2012
Everyone who wants to move into the White House spends all their time trying to emphasise how they don’t really belong there.
Categories: Featured Columnists, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: 2012, d.c., election, Gingrich, gop, newt, primary, republicans, romney, ron paul, washington, white house
Iraq’s Unfinished Story—Millions of Refugees Abandoned by U.S.
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 06, 2012
After its withdrawal from Iraq, America appears ready to wash its hands of millions of displaced refugees struggling in the wake of our exit.
Categories: Asian, Featured Columnists, Immigration, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: egypt, foreign policy, hmong, iraq, middleeast, refugee, syria, United states, vietnam, war