What will follow Hamas’ war?

Israeli clarions are trumpeting vengeance. When they fall silent, introspection will follow.
11 October 2023

Freedom without justice

If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
6 October 2023

Down on the Biden economy

Why do voters give Biden’s economy a lousy 36 percent approval rating?
25 September 2023

India’s lunar triumph

Indians are proud of their space program, for good reason.
8 September 2023

Inequality and democracy

Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?
1 September 2023

Israel’s moment of reckoning is long overdue

For decades, Israel has tried to manage the conflict, only to be managed by it.
27 August 2023

The debt supercycle comes to China

Could the debt woes of Country Garden, the behemoth Chinese real-estate developer now facing billions of dollars in losses, augur the cycle’s next turn?
23 August 2023

The real cost of de-dollarisation

The dollar’s uncontested reign is coming to an end, with far-reaching global economic consequences.
17 August 2023

Good governance is a bad idea

The good governance agenda has lost its label, but it lives on, and it has become an existential threat.
12 August 2023

A way to finance childhood growth

Too poor to affect grain prices in global markets, the chronically hungry are economically invisible.
24 July 2023

Governing a post-Western world

The West’s problems are no longer the world’s problems
9 July 2023

Winning the fight for women’s land rights

While the world enjoys the fruits of their labour, they often have no say or control over the land they work.
9 July 2023

The US and India’s non-aligned alliance

Modi's recent visit to Washington appears to mark a new chapter in the India-US relationship.
6 July 2023

Understanding Biden’s big bet on India

The unprecedented lovefest between India and the United States has been striking and, frankly, puzzling.
3 July 2023

Without whistleblowers, the West is lost

We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
22 June 2023

The Modi Decade

Dissent is framed as disloyalty, with criticism of government policies labeled “anti-national.”
13 June 2023

No confidence in the Fed

The aftershocks of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), while seemingly fading, are still reverberating around the world.
7 May 2023

Mass tech layoffs: The war for talent is over

As interest rates rise and growth slows, Silicon Valley bosses have begun to reclaim power from workers by slashing perks and initiating massive layoffs.
21 April 2023

Amongst so many global crises, the very concept of development requires rethinking

Challenges that are fundamentally transnational or global in nature are driving the biggest shifts in development policy.
15 April 2023

India’s democracy in detention

What happens to Gandhi has important implications for India’s future.
11 April 2023