Against the backdrop of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to India and escalating instability in the Gulf, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is emerging not as a fading alliance but as a ...

The standard framing of the AI race as a two-way contest between the US and China misses a third competitor closing the gap faster than either: a decentralized network of independent contributors ...

Last month, Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, hosted a gathering that, on its surface, looked like the kind of multilateral consultations that define crisis diplomacy. Abdelatty met with his ...

Senator Lindsey Graham’s death marks the end of a career that embodies the erosion of democratic norms in the US. His late-career compromises and abandonment of democratic norms reflect a broader ...

World Refugee Day 2026 passed on June 20, but the responsibility it reminds us of has not. For people who have fled war, persecution, repression or fear, safety can mean life or death. It can mean ...

One of the best barometers of graft and corruption is the rate at which those close to the original perpetrators become perpetrators themselves. The rate goes up when it becomes clear to those ...

The shift in the profile of refugees arriving in Brazil may look like a dry statistic. To me, it echoes decades of reporting from places where great powers shaped entire populations’ fates. Behind ...

Schneider explains that China has recently relaxed visa rules in two distinct ways: visa-free entry for many European visitors and the new K visa. The former aims to project China as an open and ...

Bangladesh’s deadly measles outbreak, which has killed hundreds of children, is a public health disaster that should have been prevented. The outbreak was caused by a collapse in vaccination rates ...

National movements are rarely defeated by external pressure alone. More often, their greatest challenges emerge from within, when political rivalry, competing narratives and institutional weaknesses ...

Greetings from the United States. In this week’s Spotlight, we discuss US President Donald Trump’s monetization of his social media platform, Truth Social, for his own profit. This sounds brazenly ...

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