Opinion

Carolina Alves Economics has spent the last three decades celebrating what it calls a credibility revolution. Armed with natural experiments, randomized controlled trials, and increasingly sophisticated statistical techniques, economists claim to have become less ideological and more scientific. The discipline now prides itself on answering...

Pratigyan Das Three disturbing cases of sexual assault, within a month, have once again put the growing threat women face in public spaces under the scanner. In Bihar’s Jamui, a teenage girl was allegedly molested after she and a male friend were surrounded by a...

Dr Srimanta Misra Understanding the changing geopolitical equation of the 21st century requires looking at history, where shifts in geopolitical power have followed changes in economic, technological and military strength—from sea routes and warfare to energy resources and artificial intelligence. For centuries, power was closely...

Daron Acemoglu Following repeated security debacles at OpenAI and Anthropic—both of which have developed agents that ended up hacking external systems—AI safety researchers within both firms have either announced their resignations or (finally!) conceded that the breathless race to advance the “frontier” is irresponsible. In...

Melvin Durai If you love to read, give yourself a pat on the back. Reading is one of the most important things you can do for your brain health, as scientific research has shown. It doesn’t really matter what you read or how you read...

By Otmar Issing Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, the world's leading central banks spent more than a decade unconcerned about inflation. Instead, they focused their efforts on combating deflationary pressures, while academic discourse was dominated by the notion of secular stagnation and its implications...

By Sudarshan Iyengar The Election Commission of India is not an ordinary government department. It is a constitutional institution entrusted with something more fundamental than conducting elections: protecting the citizen’s right to choose. Article 324 vests the Commission with superintendence, direction and control over electoral...

By Shivaji Sarkar Two giants meet. Since 1962, in a first, a US President welcomes a country head at air base in person – a rare moment indeed for a short truce till January 2027 – about three months. Perhaps, the world should rejoice. But...

By Kaushik Basu Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with a mixture of hope and anxiety: hope because of the rise in living standards that the digital revolution has made possible,...

By Ansuman Das & Pranaya Kumar Swain For decades, nuclear energy sat uneasily at the margins of the climate debate: valued for its low emissions, distrusted for its cost and history of accidents. That is changing, as demand rises and countries race to decarbonise power...