Peaceniks argue that Russia needs a victory or concession that will allow it to 'save face.'

For the first time in nearly 25 years, Congress will elect a president who is not a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

Unless Truss reverses more of the tax cuts or introduces policies to protect pensioners and mortgage borrowers, turmoil in the UK market will not end soon.

Populist losers are more likely than not to cry fraud, because the entire basis of their appeal lies in the claim that they, and only they, represent “the real people.”

We in the West have no right to treat Iran as a country that is desperately trying to catch up with us.

While these regimes have no real future, there is no clear and institutionally viable alternative to replace them.

Against the backdrop of China-Russia ties growing stronger, India must urgently review its geopolitical options.

By treating Israel’s colonisation of Palestine as a defensive struggle, Ukraine is validating its senseless aggression.

Politicians, media commentators, and economists have been far too hasty in predicting the demise of globalisation.

More is at stake in Ukraine than many commentators seem to appreciate. In a world beset by the effects of climate change, fertile land will be an increasingly valuable asset.

The mundane origin of the Kosovo crisis shows how easily a spark can be fanned into a conflagration.

The global shocks have proven to be particularly damaging for China because they have come on top of an ongoing, secular loss of competitiveness.

Western political correctness (“wokeness”) has displaced class struggle, producing a liberal elite that claims to protect threatened racial and sexual minorities in order to divert attention from its members’ own economic and political power. At the same time, this lie allows alt-right populists to present themselves as defenders of “real” people against corporate and “deep state” elites, even though they, too, occupy positions at the commanding heights of economic and political power.

There have been diasporas ever since the Old Testament, and, leaving aside their tragic nature, no two mass exoduses have been alike.

It will take the kind of courage shown by former slaves in the face of Jim Crow and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.

The left should maintain solidarity with those who resist aggressive, arbitrary power, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere.

The recent virtual BRICS summit, which brought together the heads of state and government of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, was interesting as much for what did not happen as for what did.

The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia.

Just as one generation gives way to the next, global challenges are superseded by a new cohort.

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences.