Throughout history, social inequality, economic disparity, and the high-handedness of those in power have often created the conditions for revolution. When wealth and power become concentrated in the hands of...

The United Nations Security Council enters 2026 facing an increasingly difficult question: how can an institution created to prevent wars remain effective in a world where conflicts, technology and geopolitical...

Humanity has advanced at an astonishing pace in science and technology. We can place machines on Mars, edit genes, transplant organs, communicate instantly across continents, predict storms, produce food on...

For decades, democracy was presented almost as the inevitable destination of human political evolution. Dictatorships would fall, people would vote, institutions would strengthen, and freedom would expand. The collapse of...

Every generation inherits a world it did not create. But today's young people are inheriting a particularly contradictory one: extraordinary technological progress alongside inequality, enormous wealth alongside insecurity, unprecedented connectivity...

Revolutions are rarely born among those comfortable with the existing order. They are most often carried by the young, people willing to question what previous generations have accepted, challenge authority,...

When India gained independence on August 15, 1947, it entered a world being reshaped by the aftermath of the Second World War, the beginning of the Cold War, the rise...

There is perhaps no political instrument more powerful than faith. Governments can offer jobs, welfare and security, while political parties can promise development and prosperity. But faith offers something politics...

Human beings rarely see the world as it is. We see it as we are. Our experiences, upbringing, education, culture, beliefs, fears, ambitions, and emotions all shape how we interpret...

Every generation inherits a difficult question: Can political necessity justify what morality condemns? Throughout history, governments have defended controversial decisions in the name of national interest, security, stability, or strategic...