Last Nuclear Weapons Limits Expired – Pushing The World Toward New Arms Race
For the first time in more than half a century, there are no binding restraints on the buildup of the...
World View
Atrocities Take Place In Democratic Nations As Well As Autocratic Ones
Thousands of people were killed by Iranian security forces in days of protests in January 2026. Meanwhile, in the same...
Independent Research Points To Over 75,000 Deaths In Gaza Conflict
The number of casualties stands nearly 35 per cent higher than the 49,090 violent deaths reported by Gaza’s Ministry of...
Why Has Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Been Held?
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The arrest comes after the US government released...
Googoosh, The ‘Voice Of Iran,’ Has Gone Quiet – And That’s Her Point
Before Beyoncé, before Cher, before Madonna, there was Googoosh. The 75-year-old Iranian megastar catapulted to stardom in Iran during the...
How Migration Made The Human World
Last August, archaeologists discovered a number of artefacts in Indonesia dating back between 1 million and 1.4 million years. The...
Can The BNP’s Victory Enable A Durable Democratic Recovery For Bangladesh?
The Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) has won a landslide majority in the country’s first election since an uprising ended the...
The Rise Of Reza Pahlavi: Iranian Opposition Leader Or Opportunist?
During the protests that ripped through Iran in January, one person who gained attention was Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi, who lives...
Bangladesh’s Exclusionary Election & Its Tryst With Democratic Renewal
As Bangladesh prepares for a February 12 vote, the continued exclusion of the Awami League and concerns over the interim...
What Will A Rebuilt Gaza Look Like? The Competing Visions For The Strip’s Future
Following a visit to Gaza in January, the UN undersecretary general, Jorge Moreira da Silva, called the level of destruction...
The Long, Rocky Road To India’s Partition
On August 15, 1947, the British quit their “jewel in the crown” and partitioned colonial India on the basis of...
Epstein Files: How The Mighty Have Fallen & Holding Them To Account
After causing massive upheaval in the lives of the global elite – from Bill Gates to Deepak Chopra – the...
Greenland’s Inuit Have Spent Decades Fighting For Self-Determination
Amid the discussion between U.S. President Donald Trump and Danish and European leaders about who should own Greenland, the Inuit...
Here’s Why International Law Falls Short To Solve The Kashmir Dispute
An armed conflict in Kashmir has thwarted all attempts to solve it for three quarters of a century. Kashmir, an...
Dams For Development? The Debate Rages On
Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank’s approach to development for many decades. From the bank’s early years in...
What The ‘Mother Of All Deals’ Between India & The EU Means For Global Trade
The “mother of all deals”: that’s how European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the new free trade agreement...
A New “Golden Age” For Global Chaos
One year since the inauguration of his second administration on 20 January 2025, when he promised to usher in a...
Why Does Donald Trump ‘Really’ Want Greenland?
What makes the sitting President of the United States, arguably the world’s most powerful man, want to take over a...
From Ancient Rome Till Present Day, War-Makers Have Talked Constantly About Peace
In a week filled with news about President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves to take control of Greenland, the world got...
The World India Must Budget For
As India looks ahead to its next Union Budget on February 1, global factors are shaping the broader context which...
4 Elections That Will Pose A Test To Democracy In ’26
Amid increasing polarisation, disinformation and economic anxieties, the health of representative democracies will be tested in elections across all continents...
Today Venezuela, Tomorrow Iran: Can The Latter Survive A Second Trump Presidency?
Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela or Cuba should care more about the U.S. capture of nominal President Nicolás Maduro...
Venezuela Down, Is Greenland Next? US Imprudence Rears Its Head Again
When news came in on January 3, 2026 that the US has launched Operation Absolute Resolve to capture Venezuelan President...
Cong Slams Modi Govt Over Trump’s Tariff Remarks, Invokes Indira’s 1971 Defiance
Against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump's comments on his relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and tariffs on...
US Raid On Venezuela Signals A New ‘Great Power’ Carve-Up Of The World
Donald Trump and his senior officials have hailed Operation Absolute Resolve, the raid on Caracas and the capture and abduction...
