Showing results for "Rules for the World" in World

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.

An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal...

"Indonesia's Top Court Rules against Educators in Sexual Assault Case" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Cochrane and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Julian Assange to 'Accept Arrest' If U.N. Panel Rules against Him" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Liam Stack , Sewell Chan, and Stephen Castle and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"In the Birthplace of Pizza, Pollution Rules for Ovens Spur Outrage" is from the Food section of The New York Times. It was written by Elisabetta Povoledo and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"The Oscars and Race: A Stir Over Rules to Change the Academy" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Cara Buckley and narrated by Fleet Cooper.