Katie Zacharia, the newly appointed White House press secretary, is facing questions about whether she is licensed to practise law in the United States after being unable to identify a state where
On 12 February 2026, Bangladesh was summoned to the polls. Yet what unfolded that day, many citizens contend, was not an authentic exercise of popular sovereignty but a parody of democracy—an election
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“What would Sri Lanka look like today if the Aragalaya had never happened?” This is a question a foreign embassy official asked a journalist. “Then the Rajapaksas would be preparing Namal for
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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a sweeping victory in the 12 February 2026 elections, securing 212 of 300 parliamentary seats. This victory represents not merely a change of government. It is
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The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South continues on, but unlike their Global North counterparts like Trump, Le Penn & Farage, as bleak as the future may seem, there are
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Summary: In this satirical and philosophical essay, Martina Moneke imagines “resurrecting” the 19th-century Whig Party as a model for today’s fractured American politics. She opens with a critique of the nation’s obsession with
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Unofficial results from Bangladesh’s parliamentary election suggest a comfortable win for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), signaling a potential shift in the country’s political landscape. As of early Thursday morning, Jamuna TV
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Washington’s 2025 strike on Iran, the raid to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in early 2026, and its renewed interest in acquiring Greenland have clarified the country’s international priorities. Meanwhile, securing Ukraine’s independence, once a defining rallying
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Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has said his party will not compromise on any major issue affecting the country’s democratic process, particularly the right to vote, as polling took place in the Dhaka-15
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir cast his vote on Thursday morning in the Thakurgaon-1 (Sadar) constituency, describing the election as a decisive moment that will determine the
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Sri Lanka has taken a major step toward abolishing the parliamentary pension system that has existed for almost five decades, after the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Public Administration, Justice and Civil Protection
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Japan is once again confronting one of the most sensitive questions in its postwar history: whether to revise the Constitution that has defined the nation’s pacifist identity for nearly eight decades. Newly
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The mutual hostility between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other since the 1978 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the unique political system known as
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Pakistan is grappling with an alarming surge of violence along ethnic and sectarian lines. On February 6, 2026, a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the Khadija al-Kubra Imambargah in Islamabad killed
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In this interview, former Bangladeshi ambassador Mohammad Harun Al Rashid delivers a blunt assessment of the political upheaval in his country, describing recent developments as “not merely political regression; it is civilizational
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On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being
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