Opinion

Cori Crider When the Economist and Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as their word of the year, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella complained, but few were surprised. The past 18 months have been characterised by an unrelenting flood of brain-rot slop, political slop, scam slop, and, above all, porn...

Infrastructure investment is booming. Around the world, governments are pouring trillions of dollars into roads, power grids, data centres, water systems, and housing, with many responding to intensifying climate shocks and the growing need for adaptation. Yet the construction industry – the single largest force...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra India's aspiration to emerge as a developed economy remains more rhetorical than real. Although the country moved from low-income to lower-middle-income status in 2007, it has remained trapped in this category for nearly two decades. Despite sustained headline growth, India's per...

By Rajdeep Sardesai So who is in charge of India’s foreign policy? On the face of it, that would seem a pretty obvious answer. Dr S Jaishankar as EAM has been the highly visible public face of the Modi government, a peripatetic and seasoned diplomat...

By Jayati Ghosh There is a method behind the apparent madness of US President Donald Trump's transactional, spheres-of-influence approach to geopolitics and the global economy. Nowhere has this logic been clearer than in his administration's illegal abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and its ongoing...

The recent deaths of over 16 persons (with unofficial estimates suggesting the number could be as high as 20), coupled with an outbreak of diseases and the hospitalisation of hundreds in Indore—one of the nation’s most reputedly clean cities—underscore significant concerns regarding drinking water contamination...

In legal discourse, the terms law and code are often loosely used, yet they embody funda mentally different ideas with far-reaching consequences for governance and social justice. This distinction becomes critically important when examining India’s recent transition from a protective, welfare-oriented labour law regime to...

Many elements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent meeting with US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago were disconcerting, if not depressing. For starters, no American official met the Ukrainian head of state upon his arrival in Miami, which stands in stark contrast to the pomp...

By Melvin Durai If you’re feeling depressed, there is one thing I recommend to brighten your mood: ice cream. Nothing puts a smile on a person’s face faster than giving them ice cream. If you don’t believe me, just go to any public place, find...

By Shlomo Ben-Ami One year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has established himself as the most revolutionary US president in recent history. Whereas “America First” once seemed like an isolationist posture (not least to Trump’s MA GA base), it is now clear that it...