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By Senem Aydın-Düzgit US President Donald Trump’s ferocious assault on American institutions over the last nine months is a particularly morbid symptom of the global decline of democracy. But Trump has merely capitalized on a process that was well underway before his return to the...

The existence of bogus voters in the electoral rolls prepared by the Election Commission of India (ECI) has always been an issue that causes concern, as it vitiates the polling process - the soul of democracy. Added to this vicious circle is the presence of...

China is going through the motions of yet another purge in the top echelons of power and this time the removal of key leaders – both in the military and political hierarchy – is on an unprecedented scale. For four days, from 20 to 23...

A recent report published in the American daily The Washington Post has once again brought the pervasive issue of crony capitalism and rent-seeking in India into focus. According to the report, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), at the behest of the government of India,...

By Aakar Patel If all goes well, and your columnist is really hoping that it does go well, the world’s most famous city will soon be won and run by a man with a Gujarati father and a Punjabi mother. Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic...

It’s not every day that a Prime Minister spends hours in brainstorming sessions with senior bureaucrats. But that’s exactly what Narendra Modi has been doing. Recently, he was huddling with his top babus in marathon meetings to “reboot governance” under the Modi 3.0 banner. The...

By Shoumitro Chatterjee & Arvind Subramanian China’s rising trade surplus is once again causing unease in the United States and Europe. But the real casualties from this new “China Shock” will not be in the West. They will be in the developing world, where hundreds...

Brahma Chellaney During his 13 years in power, Xi Jinping has steadily tightened his grip on all levers of authority in China – the Communist Party of China (CPC), the state apparatus, and the military – while expanding surveillance into virtually every aspect of society....

A new wave of political movements without any so-called ideological underpinning except for deafeningly noisy demands for basic citizens' needs and livelihoods is sweeping across the world from the Andes to the Himalayas. After Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Peru and Morocco, it is...

After showing admirable and decisive toughness in defusing the crisis in the Middle East, US President Donald Trump has been going back and forth when it comes to dealing with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. For some time, he has been saying that he wants to see...