Opinion

It's one of the delicious ironies of the Barack Obama presidency that a man who came into office with lofty talk on nuclear nonproliferation would...

Vulnerable communities face the brunt of climate change – from rising sea levels and extreme weather events to prolonged severe droughts and flooding....

In July, the International Monetary Fund’s Independent Evaluation Office released a major report on how the Fund handled the euro crisis after 2010. The...

Our escort carries an old assault rifle, smokes a huge spliff, and drives, at times, very fast, with loud Brazilian favela “funk” music playing, through...

Excessive red tape is proving to be a hill too steep to climb for school dropouts, who want to continue with their education in their mature years, with...

Can messy, polarised democracies ever get anything done? Could real reformist laws ever be passed by legislatures obsessed with partisan point-scoring?...

If there’s one corollary that can be drawn from the Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly elections held recently, it is that Project Democracy...

Much of the world is watching Chinese President Xi Jinping with concern. Not only has he been re-concentrating power in the hands of the central government;...

With the land of the two rivers, Iraq and Syria, now a wasteland of human suffering and rubble, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, commonly known as the...

“Brexit means Brexit,” Theresa May, the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, insists. It is a simple and powerful slogan that sends an unmistakable...