Opinion

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...

By Nabin Nanda   The recent unanimous passage of a financial bill in the Odisha Assembly to increase salaries and allowances of sitting MLAs, along with the pension of former MLAs, has generated widespread debate and criticism across the state. Much of the outrage, particularly...

By Malay Mishra Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office as the mayor of New York, the largest and most important city of USA, at a decommissioned subway of Manhattan to symbolise his affinity with the city’s workers and marginalised people whose cause he said...

The global economic order is being rewritten. Wars in Europe and West Asia, US–China rivalry, the return of tariffs, and the erosion of multilateral institutions have turned trade into an arena of power rather than rules. Trade is now about security, resilience, and influence as...

When US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared that a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother had been gunned down by federal officials because she was committing “an act of domestic terrorism,” she was not making a factual claim. She was seeking a megalomaniac’s approval. Her boss, US...