The way highways cut through and loop around cities like Houston — disconnecting, disrupting and displacing communities, businesses and people and reinforcing racial and economic segregation — can feel like a fact of nature. But as Megan Kimble recounts in her new book, “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, And the Future of America’s Highways,” this hasn’t always been the case.

The historical parallel we must learn from, however, is not the Cold War, but the Second World War, when Sino-American cooperation proved decisive for the fate of the world.

At the end of the day, fanfiction is ultimately an expressive outlet that allows us to weave realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities.

As the writer Arundhati Roy put it, the pandemic is a portal, one where we have the choice to walk through and build a new and better world. It’s time for all of us to leave toxic productivity culture behind for a world of fulfilling lives where work is just one part of a greater whole.

Fashion is such a powerful mode of expression, not only because it lets us be who we want to be, but also see who we want to be. In being their genuine self, Alok represented a path forward, and in being my genuine self, I hope to do the same for others.

By 2040, it is expected that the Greater Houston area will have over ten million residents, and for the sake of those successive generations who will call our great city home, it is imperative that this city alter the laissez-faire paradigm it has relied on for so long.

Have you ever wondered why every Friday evening you can hear Mead Chapel’s bells ringing? Maybe you haven’t, but I certainly have!

Ultimately, much of the future of Pakistan and CPEC is not entirely clear, and for now most people will have to wait and see where this ambitious program on the part of the Chinese and Pakistani governments will go.