by Laxman Aravind The political faction led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake has convinced itself that capturing power at this juncture is a national imperative. In doing so, many have been swept into
We are becoming strangers. Strangers in our own countries. Strangers in the world. The values we cherish, the liberties we once took for granted, and the possibility of a democratic future are
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Nigel Farage has built his political career on confrontation, defiance and direct appeals to voters. But on Tuesday, the leader of Reform UK placed his future at the centre of another political
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A new book has unleashed a blistering critique of President Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of surrounding himself with a “boy band” of loyalists and making reckless decisions driven by “narcissism and depression.”
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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described the current global landscape as “some of the most dangerous times in living memory,” while simultaneously highlighting its transformative potential, in his regular column
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In the spring of 1967, history teacher Ron Jones at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, launched an experiment that would leave a lasting imprint on educational and cultural discourse. Designed
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Left-wing candidates have failed to win a single presidential election in the region this year, in what some analysts are calling a “blue tide,” reversing the “pink tide” that swept Latin America
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“Whenever Jupiter changes position, the JVP becomes powerful. But that power never lasts long. Within two or three years, it fades away. That happened in 1971. It happened in 1987. It happened
More In jubilation, when news reached him from Lima that arch-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast had emerged victorious in Chile’s presidential election, Argentina’s right wing president Javier Milei posted a map of South
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J.N. Dixit, India’s former National Security Adviser and one of the country’s most seasoned diplomats, once wrote that the establishment of relations “with South Africa and then with Israel” was the most
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by Laxman Aravind The political faction led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake has convinced itself that capturing power at this juncture is a national imperative. In doing so, many have been swept into
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