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Dear DOGE, it's high time to tear down those dams!
News, Tom Zoellner, Published on 12/07/2025
» No big government infrastructure project made an imprint on the landscape and economy of the West more than the US Bureau of Reclamation's 20th century dam-building spree, which peppered 490 dams across the country, created an agricultural civilisation dependent on federal hydrology civil engineering, and brought about a welter of environmental difficulties after drying up dozens of once-healthy rivers.
Old school forever
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/03/2025
» Re: "AI has potential, but care needed", (Editorial, Feb 23).
Netanyahu and Biden: decisions, decisions
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/10/2024
» Two weeks ago Iran, in response to Israel's assassinations of the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas, its most important allies in the Arab world, fired 181 ballistic missiles at Israel. A big and prompt Israeli counterattack was expected, but at the time of writing it has still not happened. Why not?
Right to speak
Postbag, Published on 13/10/2024
» Re: "Short arm of the law", (Editorial, Oct 10) & "Ghosts of Tak Bai", (PostBag, Oct 11).
Getting historic renovations right
Oped, Atch Sreshthaputra, Published on 09/11/2023
» There has been some good news about the conservation of heritage architecture in Thailand in recent years -- but bad news as well. First, the good part: our society is waking up to the value of heritage. Despite little public funding and weak legal protection, some old buildings and sites are being conserved. Many people, companies and institutions throughout the nation now recognise that preserving our historic architectural resources improves our economy, communities and quality of life.
One More Thing?
News, Postbag, Published on 20/10/2022
» Re: "Call of duty", (PostBag, Oct 12) and "Cops' firearms policy under review", (BP, Oct 8).
Uniformly servile
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/07/2022
» Re: "The dress code conundrum", (Life, July 26).
EV challenges
News, Postbag, Published on 19/12/2021
» Re: "State offers perks to increase sales", (Business, Dec 16).
Why cultural restitution by Europe really matters
News, Patrick Gaspard, Published on 06/12/2019
» French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe recently presented an antique sabre to Senegalese President Macky Sall at the presidential palace in Dakar. But it was not a gift. The sabre was coming home, more than a century after it had been stolen.
A Brexit lesson from the cradle of democracy
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 16/01/2019
» The Macedonian parliament's vote to rename the country and thus remove the biggest obstacle to its integration into Western institutions is evidence that intractable political issues are best resolved through the traditional backroom dealings of representative democracy rather than through the direct expression of popular will.