“Not Without Us” is a collection of essays presenting voices that explore the personal and political of living with a disability in Singapore.

A Shift in the Wind is a "time capsule", written 37 years ago by a group of people in their 20s and 30s. It captures the exuberant months after 1984's general election, when two opposition leaders won seats in Parliament, and young Singaporeans believed that democracy would prevail.

The pursuit of racial harmony, backed up by a corpus of laws and penalties, may come at the expense of genuine racial justice.

Over two years, Singapore has risen in position from 160 to 129, thanks in part to the media environment deteriorating in other countries, writes Jom's editor-in-chief, who's on the survey panel. He suggests how Singapore can further liberalise its media landscape.

In and around public housing estates, there is a trend where a greater mixing of ethnicities is accompanied by less socioeconomic mixing. By focusing on the former, Singapore may be paying insufficient attention to the latter.

Among other peculiarities, the public prosecutor chose to proceed on the lightest charge, on only one false statement, and using only two of the many bits of evidence. Its submission, said the judge, "read like a mitigation and were lifted wholesale and repeated for effect by the defence."