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Daron Acemoglu With the annual inflation rate in the United States reaching 5% in May, economists and investors are right to be apprehensive about deficit spending, public debt, and the risk of sustained price growth – which is higher now than it has been for...

Sarah Hawkes & Kent Buse “Is my lipstick protecting me against COVID-19?” ranks as one of the more intriguing email queries we have received from a member of the public since we began coordinating the world’s largest tracker of sex-disaggregated data on the pandemic. In...

It is a sad commentary on the country’s system of justice and investigation that Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, has died. He underwent inhuman treatment behind the bars after his arrest in the Bhima Koregaon case in October 2020. The...

It reflects poorly on the Indian government that it is not prepared to reopen the case of alleged corruption in the controversial Rafale fighter aircraft deal following fresh revelations. In the meanwhile, France has commenced an investigation into the case and a judge has been...

The departure of American troops July 2 from the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the linchpin of the US-led war against terrorists operating from the country for nearly two decades, marks a new chapter in Afghanistan’s history. Since the US took control of the field following...

Column writing is referred to as ‘punditry’ in America. Their definition of a pundit is “an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called upon to give their opinions to the public.” However this is not how punditry usually expresses itself. Newspaper...

No one’s willing to bell this cat! The dramatis personae are still largely the same, but a stealthy U-turn was in the works, say those in the know, at Sanchar Bhavan. The question that isn’t being asked yet is whether the government acted in haste...

Michele Barry & Geeta Rao Gupta One in four. That’s the proportion of American women who are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce due to the impact of Covid-19. In just one year, the pandemic has driven more than two million women in...

There is ample reason to be worried over the use of weaponised drones for cross-border terrorist activities after the first ever drone attack by suspected terrorists in Jammu. This sort of a serious drone attack might surprise many in India. However, for the rest of...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) will turn 100 July 1. When the party was founded in 1921, the CPC had only about 50 members and China was then an impoverished and weak country being bullied by foreign powers. Hundred years later, the CPC today...