Tensions are rising in South Asia after India ended the special status for Jammu and Kashmir by revoking Article 370. Lockdown continues in the Indian state as key leaders are in custody, ...

So, as usual, we’ll have a three-part structure. We are going to first ask the question: What are these tensions? Then we are going to pose the question: Why do we have these tensions? And then we ...

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The Asian Development Bank and the Qatar Fund for Development ...

China's economy is grappling with a mounting debt crisis, particularly at the local government level, driven by fiscal deficits, shrinking land revenues and implicit debt burdens. This article ...

In the recently concluded state-level elections in three northern “Hindi heartland” states, the Indian National Congress (INC), the primary national opposition party, fared poorly. The Bharatiya ...

US President Joe Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating ...

Similar to Jews and Palestinians, Kurds have faced oppression, displacement, and a long struggle for statehood. Although most Kurds are Muslim, their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict vary. Some ...

Over ten years, the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow shared thoughts, explored ideas and conducted research on an impressive scale to ...

I’m sitting on the hot sand at Playa de Zicatela in Puerto Escondido, a sleepy hamlet on Mexico’s Pacific coast, exhausted after a long session on the waves. My friend Neftali is on his back, lain out ...

Sarito Carroll lived in Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s commune in Oregon, which collapsed under criminal charges 40 years ago. Like most teenagers in Rajneeshpuram, she was sexually abused there. Now she is ...