Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
Editorial There’s nothing subtle about the fact that Super Bowl LX on 8 February 2026 will be remembered not for the football but for the cultural and political earthquake detonated by the
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Afghanistan remains trapped in a deep and layered crisis, marked by persistent armed resistance, extremist violence, political fragility, the collapse of law and order, and systematic institutional repression. Nearly four years after
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In February 1984, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi lay in the infirmary of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, cancer spreading through his young body as Iraqi missiles slammed into Iranian cities overhead. At 24, condemned to
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When Volker Türk stood before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 9 February 2026, his message was blunt and accusatory: what happened in El Fasher last October was not an
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For decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, celebrated for his relentless critique of power and his insistence that truth-telling is a moral duty, especially when
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from Sunday’s snap lower house election with the strongest mandate seen in postwar Japan, a political triumph that reshapes the country’s domestic balance of power while sending
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President Trump has infuriated some of his supporters. Trump’s alignment with Israel at the expense of America’s interest and the valid interests of other countries is especially galling for those Trump supporters who
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History exists in the facts of life, and the shallowness of a nation’s history is often the result of inept and egoistic leadership. In wars, logic fails to define foes and friends.
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Japan’s political landscape shifted decisively on Sunday as projections from public broadcaster NHK showed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party surging toward a historic landslide in the Lower House election, consolidating
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Special Ambassador Steve Witkoff no doubt talked to President Trump about the US-Iran meeting in Oman. We don’t have a special wiretap on his call to the President, but it is a
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The following column was first printed in Sunday Island, Colombo.- Editor It is ugly. It is disgusting. No one knows whether he died by suicide or by some other, more carefully arranged
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On February 5, 2026, Pakistan’s military media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced that Security Forces (SFs) had concluded Operation Radd-ul-Fitna (Elimination of Discord)-1 in Balochistan, after a series of intelligence-based operations (IBOs) targeting
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On February 5, 2026, joint forces, including the Police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Army, detained 345 Rohingyas, including 176 men, 86 women, and 83 children and adolescents, during a late-night
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From the moment a visitor stands at the foot of Sigiriya and looks up at its mist-veiled summit, a strange quiet seems to press down on the landscape. The sheer granite monolith,
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by Durga Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers begins not with theory or metaphor but with a body learning fear. “When I was a child in Beijing, I learned early how to stay
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