The COVID lab-leak hypothesis: what scientists do and don’t know

Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 3: Conspiracy theories and grift

Why India failed - the definitive article on India’s COVID disaster, by Sonia Faleiro

Inside the Taiwanese embassy siege in Haiti: how a lone security guard helped wrangle 11 suspects

Canada’s Indigenous reconciliation movement enters new phase following discovery of children’s graves

“we consider any strategy that tolerates high levels of infection to be both unethical and illogical. The UK Government must reconsider its current strategy“

Another diplomat in the region said: “China at the request of Pakistan will support the Taliban.”

LGBTQ rights groups blocked on China’s biggest social media app WeChat

Seedy Space Ports and Colony Planets - Asian Conical Hats in Cinematic Dystopias by Astria Suparak

Fury in India over death of 84-year-old political prisoner Stan Swamy | India

Jailed Indian tribal rights activist Stan Swamy has died 84 yrs old, suffering from Parkinson’s, he was accused of “terrorism” and detained for his work on behalf of Indigenous people in India.

After Hitting Record on June 21, India’s Daily Covid Vaccination Sees 68% Drop

The History and Politics of Wuxia - Wonderful overview by @jeannette_ng

Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India - India

Wuhan Lab’s Last–And Only–Foreign Scientist Speaks Out on Covid Origins Debate

Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard

Adam Tooze · Krugman’s break with the economic assumptions of the Clinton era and the early Obama years

Great piece on some important ways that Taiwan could improve its COVID response: Unnecessary in-person work creates avoidable opportunities for infection.

COVID-19, Migrant Workers, and the Fight for Equality in Taiwan

A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners”

Healing words: Taiwan’s tribes fight to save their disappearing languages

Discriminatory Policies Target Migrant Workers in Wake of Miaoli Clusters

Victory!!! The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead

Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test: Affluence—not willpower—seems to be what’s behind some kids’ capacity to delay gratification.

It’s apartheid, say (two former) Israeli ambassadors to South Africa