In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
Failure of the UN system is ultimately a failure of its member states to maintain and foster its objectives. Inequality in the power of member states, and the partiality shown by some
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on an interview with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon conducted by CBS Evening News. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon speaks with the authority of a
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Missile inventories have become a focal point in the ongoing military confrontation with Iran. The Alma Research and Education Center estimates Iran’s ballistic missile count has fallen from 2,500 at the beginning of the
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A word keeps appearing across political commentary and media critique, as if it might contain the problem: childish. It surfaces with remarkable consistency—leaders described as immature, as adolescent, as performing power rather
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Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in the Colombo-based Sunday Island. As I have pointed out since the first term of the Trump administration, Donald Trump was never merely a leader
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A shaky video shot in the streets of Solino in October 2024 captures the reality unfolding in Haiti. In the clip, a contingent of young men and child soldiers wave guns in the air
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The Netanyahu/Trump pole is most of all focused on Iran. If Iran were to fall, they would most likely turn their attention to supporting Ukraine and targeting Russia. But Iran’s desperate resistance
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“It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the Strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there.” ~ President Donald Trump The Overview The contemporary tensions in
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In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s school voucher program. The schools’ offense, according to the state’s announcement,
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At rare moments in history, a technology emerges that does more than improve productivity. It reshapes the foundations of economic organization, redistributes power, and redefines the terms of international exchange. The steam
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On March 6, 2026, addressing a function marking the 57th Raising Day of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Mundali in Cuttack District, Odisha, Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah asserted
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The salience of the two readouts of the phone call on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is that the bilateral relationship between the two ‘civilisation states’
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China, which was the largest holder of U.S. government debt as recently as 2019, has cut its holdings to the lowest level since 2008, driven by changing trade patterns, geopolitical concerns, and domestic economic
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The contemporary wave of Political Islam was influenced and shaped by the Muslim Brotherhood. The foundational ideology of Al Qaeda, Islamic State (ISIS) and other Islamist terrorist groups is inspired, influenced and
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Right at the beginning of his book, ‘The Killing Fields of Inequality’ Göran Therborn says ‘Inequality is a violation of human dignity; it is a denial of the possibility for everybody’s human
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