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
On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announced a National Manufacturing Mission. The mission, he said, must ‘reduce import
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In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial’s value as “$0.00,” unable to process the speed and scale of the depreciation, making it unexchangeable on important international trading platforms. The fallout
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Xi Jinping has spent three years gutting his own military leadership. Five of the seven members of the Central Military Commission – China’s supreme military authority – have been purged since 2023,
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China has issued a sharp rebuke to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi following her recent remarks suggesting that Japan could act jointly with the United States to protect nationals in Taiwan, Global
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Even invoking international law has become awkward. Institutions look increasingly irrelevant as political and economic processes unfold demonstrably outside them. This reaction is understandable. The latest targets of actions that violate the
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Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, however, lie not in surface-level factors but in the
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A sprawling black market for UK work visas is flourishing, with unregulated agents and licensed companies selling fraudulent “payroll-only” jobs that allow migrants to remain in Britain without doing any real work,
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Hamas is seeking to secure a future role for its vast security and civil workforce in Gaza by pushing to incorporate its police force into a new U.S.-backed Palestinian administration, a move
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Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures repurposed as displacement camps after Israel’s genocidal assault reduced entire
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Western Power and the Persistence of Colonial Structures There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because maintaining the performance becomes too expensive. Recently
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. While the Trump-Newsom rivalry has captivated some voters to pick sides,
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Imperial deceit now stands starkly exposed in Bangladesh: the calculated rehabilitation of the executioners of 1971, ushered back toward power with chilling audacity. There is an irony so stark, so unembarrassed, that
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Eric Schmidt, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential figures of the past two decades, has issued a stark warning to Europe over its approach to artificial intelligence, arguing that the continent is
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The Dalai Lama’s unfulfilled wish to visit Sri Lanka lays bare how Beijing’s shadow constrains smaller Asian nations from making sovereign foreign policy choices. At 90, Tenzin Gyatso—the 14th Dalai Lama and
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has delivered a stark assessment of Europe’s security ambitions, warning that the European Union would be unable to defend itself without the United States even if member
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