India completed its 2,800 km Dedicated Freight Corridor last week, a railway network built exclusively for cargo trains to avoid delays from passenger services. However, the corridor's success depends on solving the last-mile connectivity problem: trucks must still transport goods to and from freight terminals, creating a bottleneck that limits the corridor's efficiency gains.
Naomi Klein's new book 'End Times Fascism', co-written with Astra Taylor, argues that extreme wealth concentration creates a psychological derangement in the ultra-rich, turning them into supremacists willing an apocalypse to establish a post-democratic world. Klein illustrates this through examples including billionaires' plans for a privatized Gaza and a privatized United Nations, alongside authoritarian movements globally.