Why Is the UK Health Service Defending First-Cousin Marriage?: The UK is once again embroiled in a heated cultural and political debate—this time over the National Health Service’s decision to highlight supposed “benefits” of first-cousin marriages. While critics argue the practice poses serious genetic risks to children and should be banned outright, the NHS has compared its dangers to lifestyle choices like smoking, drinking during pregnancy, or even delaying childbirth. The controversy raises deeper questions: is the UK protecting outdated cultural practices at the expense of children’s health, or is the state reluctant to confront a taboo subject head-on?
Behind the Barred Windows: How Afghanistan’s War on Drugs Became a Battle for Souls : If you walk through Kabul today, it might look cleaner than it did a few years ago. The parks once filled with men sprawled under the sun, the bridges littered with used needles and broken glass — they’re mostly empty now. Kids are playing again in Shahr-e-Naw Park. But behind the locked doors and barred windows of the city’s rehab centers, another battle rages — one far more complicated than it looks from the outside.
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