As our healthcare system comes under increasing strain, let us not publicly ‘celebrate’ our frontliners while silencing their voices and turning a deaf ear to their pleas for help.

As someone who works in communications, the columnist offers some perspectives on the effects of what people say, and how they say it.

While we keep thinking about the best ways to do system-wide aid, let’s not forget the power of inspiring each other to do small good deeds.

#BangsaMalaysia can only be built based on shared values. Maybe first among those should be: we take care of one another.

Columnist Nathaniel Tan speaks of the dangers of being addicted to computer gaming

Abim has sounded the rallying call. Will we answer?

“Fruitless did I call the victory of the Last Alliance? Not wholly so, yet it did not achieve its end. Sauron was diminished, but not destroyed. His Ring was lost but not unmade. The Dark Tower was broken, but its foundations were not removed; for they were made with the power of the Ring, and while it remains they will endure.” -- Elrond, The Fellowship of The Ring

What is the new centre of gravity that will emerge from our growing vacuums?

I AM really lucky to have a wife that understands me, and is so frequently patient and forgiving of my considerable list of trying quirks – even at great cost to herself. No two people fit perfectly, but some people are lucky to fit pretty well.

The writer compares some key institutional characteristics of American and Malaysian democracy, and the … Deep State?!!

It may still be a post-truth, propaganda-soaked world, but Malaysia should learn from the Trump example that this can carry you only so far.

JOE BIDEN, president-elect of the United States, said this in his victory speech: