Politics

In May 2012 Dharun Ravi received 30 days in jail for spying on Tyler Clementi — a sentence that satisfied almost no one in one of America's most debated

May 22, 2012 · 1 min read

A Gujarat village school made national news in 2012 with air-conditioned classrooms — inspiring, startling, and a window into India's rural education gap.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 a French prosecutor in Lille opened a preliminary rape investigation against Strauss-Kahn over an alleged December 2010 incident in Washington.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 Florida found about 53,000 deceased people on its voter rolls — a real administrative backlog that became political ammunition on all sides.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012, nine men were jailed for a child sexual exploitation ring in Rochdale — sentences of 4 to 19 years in a case that forced Britain to confront

May 20, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

May 19, 2012 · 1 min read

April 2012 polls briefly showed Mitt Romney closing the gender gap with women voters. The movement, the spin, and what November actually delivered.

May 15, 2012 · 1 min read

The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us

May 11, 2012 · 1 min read

Mumbai Police released photos of alleged LeT terrorists who had entered the city — but reporters found the men in Lahore, running shops, tied to no plot.

May 10, 2012 · 1 min read

Documents seized from Abbottabad showed bin Laden wanted Obama assassinated but Biden spared — judging the vice president too unready to inherit the presidency.

May 3, 2012 · 2 min read

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.

May 2, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 the Army was reported to be ending its colonial-era sahayak 'buddy' system. The promised end never fully came. What happened — and why the reform

May 2, 2012 · 2 min read

Accounts circulated that Bal Thackeray pointedly skipped dinner for BJP chief Nitin Gadkari at Matoshree — a blunt episode in Shiv Sena-BJP alliance lore.

April 30, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2012 report told of an Indian worker returning home after 18 years of bondage in Saudi Arabia — a stark window into the Gulf migrant-worker trap.

April 25, 2012 · 2 min read

In April 2012, Nupur Talwar challenged the non-bailable warrant against her in the Aarushi case — lost in the Supreme Court, and surrendered on April 30.

April 25, 2012 · 2 min read

Researchers began building riot-prediction models from social media and economic data in 2012 — and civil-liberties advocates immediately raised alarms.

April 22, 2012 · 2 min read

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female

April 17, 2012 · 3 min read

A 2012 editorial discussion asked whether civil-service vetting was re-victimizing child-marriage survivors — and why the law's letter can fail its spirit.

April 16, 2012 · 3 min read

India tested the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012 — a 5,000-km canisterized ICBM that brought Beijing within range for the first time.

April 16, 2012 · 3 min read

Hilary Rosen's claim that Ann Romney 'never worked a day in her life' detonated a mommy-war controversy in April 2012 — and both campaigns fled the blast.

April 12, 2012 · 1 min read