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Dani Rodrik US President Joe Biden’s economic and foreign policies may represent a sharp departure from those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. But when it comes to relations with China, Biden has largely maintained Trump’s tough line – refusing, for example, to reverse Trump’s tariff...

Elizabeth Drew Perhaps the Democratic Party’s downhill slide can be arrested by President Joe Biden and his top congressional allies. But their job is daunting. If objective conditions don’t change – particularly inflation – and if the Republicans field able candidates, the Democrats could be...

It is all very nice that Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered sweets and celebrated Diwali with soldiers November 5 at the Nowshera sector in the border district of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. His exhortations and platitudes that the Indian defence strategy has to be...

Meghalaya Governor and BJP leader Satya Pal Malik has done it again. He has gone hammer and tongs against the Centre, questioning the wisdom of some of its crucial decisions, including the three controversial farm laws, policies and even the party’s tall claim of stemming...

Just a year back America’s Democrats were jubilant that they had pushed the then US President Donald Trump out of USA’s political space which was their main political-electoral agenda. But, barely a year later things have started changing for the Democrats at an alarming pace....

For many years, I had the opportunity to visit and study Pakistan and also to write for its newspapers. My special interest was in the 20 years period just after the creation of Bangladesh till the exit of the President General Zia ul Haq. For...

A piquant situation has developed in Mizoram which now finds itself saddled with two chief secretaries. Whereas the Centre has appointed senior IAS officer Renu Sharma as the new Chief Secretary of the state, this coincides with the state government appointing Additional Chief Secretary JC...

Julia Gillard The threat COVID-19 poses to human health is now well understood around the world. In contrast, the enormous health threat of global warming, with its broad array of persistent impacts on our well-being, is under-recognised and poorly understood. Yet climate change is harming...

Although the G20 countries have taken stock of the world economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic that broke out early 2020, there is still no answer to the all-important question of whether things will return to normal and, if so, when and how. Work from...

It augurs well that the G20 summit in Rome and the UN climate change conference, christened as COP26, in Glasgow this year have almost coincided. The two-day Rome summit ended October 31 when the nearly fortnight-long climate conference began. The common thread running between the...