50 years ago this month, bangladesh's war of independence came to an end. No one knows how many people died in the brutal nine month conflict. Estimates range from a few hundred thousand to three million. Some recently discovered photographs shed new light on that dark time.
The lightning-fast spread of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pandemic to endemic; we ask how that would change global responses. Concern about video-game addictiveness is as old as video games themselves—but the business models of modern gaming may be magnifying the problem. And newly publicised photographs shed light on Bangladesh’s brutal war for independence.
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