Opinion

Thomas Cueni More than one in five Americans hospitalised with COVID-19 also contracts a bacterial infection. In the absence of effective antibiotics, those lucky enough to beat the coronavirus might die at the hands of these not-so-novel pathogens. Unfortunately, the pipeline of new antibiotics is...

Arvind Subramanian Once US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration has made the relatively easy decisions to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, remain in the World Health Organisation, and attempt to reboot the World Trade Organisation, it will confront three key foreign-policy issues. In order of importance,...

Melvin Durai One of the perks of being a celebrity is that you can make lots of money by being a brand ambassador and endorsing products, companies and organisations. If you’re a popular actor in India, the list of products you’ve endorsed is probably longer...

Jayati Ghosh The American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech have announced that the COVID-19 vaccine they are jointly developing was more than 90 per cent effective in early clinical trials. The news raised hopes around the world that life may soon return to pre-pandemic...

Shivaji Sarkar Post Bihar election, a new stimulus package was being awaited. Its impact would be felt in the next three years though it may gradually give a boost to the housing sector and some others that have been linked to production-linked incentive. The raucous...

SN Misra In a recent article, Prof Reinhart of Kennedy Business School writes, “The pandemic has put the final nail in the coffin of globalisation.” She refers to the shutting down of borders, discouragement of export of food and even health products and countries trying...

Kent Harrington America’s allies should be forgiven if they are confused about where American foreign policy is headed. Who isn't, given the go-it-alone recklessness of Donald Trump's presidency? Over the past three years, Trump has sowed strategic chaos, and his foreign policy, if one can...

Tlaleng Mofokeng While the world has been fixated on the results of the presidential election in the United States, less attention has been paid to another outcome of last Tuesday’s vote: significant steps toward decriminalisation of drugs in several US states. One state – Oregon...

Dani Rodrik As Joe Biden eked out a victory in the US presidential election after a few suspenseful days, observers of American democracy were left scratching their heads. Buoyed by polls, many expected a landslide for the Democrats, with the party capturing not only the...

Melvin Durai At the turn of the century, if you had told a random group of Americans that over the next two decades, they would elect a president named Barack Hussein Obama, whose father was from Kenya, and a vice president named Kamala Devi Harris,...