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The Open Society’s Suicide Pact
It is nearly ten years since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Europe’s borders in September 2015 in a gesture of boundless...

Christoph Ernst
Aug 186 min read


The Open Society and the Gods That Return
It is nearly ten years since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Europe’s borders in September 2015 in a gesture of boundless...

Christoph Ernst
Aug 175 min read


Document Number 9 and China’s Ideological Cold War
Xi Jinping’s secret manifesto against ‘Western values’ still shapes the Party’s battle to preserve its grip on power. In April 2013, the...

Laurence Westwood
Aug 164 min read


Social Media: An Unsolicited Top Court
The Coldplay concert scandal underscores the price of going viral. There are many ways to be caught out - a polygraph test, a gruelling...

Ruddhi Phadke
Jul 244 min read


The Drowned Frontier
Texas has always had a tempestuous relationship with water. The vast expanses of the Lone Star State, punishingly dry for much of the...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jul 193 min read


When Politics Gags Harvard
Donald Trump’s war on Harvard is imperilling academic freedom and tarnishing America’s intellectual brand. Getting into Harvard has...

C.S. Krishnamurthy
Jul 54 min read


Belgrade, Interrupted
As protests swept through the Serbian capital, Belgrade’s warmth became the only route home. Our journey through the Balkans was winding...

Prajakta Paranjape
Jul 43 min read


Trouble in the House of Shinawatra
Thailand’s youngest prime minister stumbles as scandal, street protests and economic woes collide. Thailand’s youngest and second-ever...

Ruddhi Phadke
Jul 23 min read


A Canopy, Then a Storm
The collapse of a roof in Novi Sad has triggered a nationwide uprising against Aleksandar Vučić’s decade-long rule. Serbians want change,...

Sameer Damle
Jul 13 min read


Red Menace on the Hudson?
Zohran Mamdani is not the revolutionary New York needs but the symptom of its political exhaustion. When New York’s Democratic voters...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jun 263 min read


Operation Rising Lion and Return of the Begin Doctrine
Netanyahu’s audacious strikes on Iran mark the most forceful reaffirmation of the Begin Doctrine in a generation. Surrounded by regimes...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jun 134 min read


Indian students at Harvard navigate uncertainties amid Trump's war on university
NEW YORK: Indian students at Harvard say they are navigating a "rollercoaster" of uncertainty and anxiety amid the Trump administration's...
PTI
Jun 105 min read


Paank condemns enforced disappearance of seven baloch civilians by Pakistani forces in Mastung and Gwadar
Geneva: Paank, the human rights sector of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), has voiced serious apprehension and vehemently denounced...
Agency
Jun 32 min read


Hindu community in Pak's Sindh protests against illegal occupation of temple land
Karachi: Members of the Hindu community in Pakistan's Sindh province held a protest against the illegal occupation of six acres of land...
PTI
Jun 22 min read


Keir Starmer’s Chagos Folly
Trapped between hollow justice and cold realpolitik, the Chagossians are the expendable casualties nobody bothers to count. The seven...

Laurence Westwood
May 274 min read


Pashtun activist condemns Pakistan Army drone strike killing children in North Waziristan
Paris: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activist Fazal ur Rehman Afridi has vehemently criticised the recent drone strike conducted by the...
Agency
May 232 min read


From Silk Roads to Tariff Walls
What William Bernstein’s grand history of trade can teach us about America’s new economic nationalism. President Donald Trump’s...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Apr 173 min read


Who is 17-year-old Nikita Casap charged with murdering his parents to fund plot to assassinate Trump?
Nikita Casap, a 17-year-old from Wisconsin, has been accused of killing his parents to get money for a plan to assassinate former U.S....
Correspondent
Apr 143 min read


Russian strike hits Indian Pharma warehouse in Kyiv, Ukraine alleges deliberate targeting
New Delhi: Ukraine today claimed that a Russian missile hit the warehouse of an Indian pharmaceutical company in Kyiv. The Ukrainian...
Correspondent
Apr 132 min read


Xi urges EU to stand with China against ‘unilateral bullying’
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called on the European Union to work together with China to stand against what he described as...
Correspondent
Apr 112 min read
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