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Zimbabwean businessman Munya Chihota's face lights up when he recalls taking part in a march last year with tens of thousands of people calling for...

Suppose two people hold different opinions about a policy issue. Is it possible to say that one is right and the other wrong, or do they just have different...

It is now common knowledge that many democracies around the world are under pressure. But mounting threats to a particularly important democratic right have...

On his week-long tour of Asia, US Vice President Mike Pence had been promoting a vision of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region, characterized by...

With Jair Bolsonaro president-elect, and his three sons in elected office -- Flavio in the Senate, Eduardo in the Congress and Carlos on Rio de...

Global health is once again in the spotlight. In September, the United Nations General Assembly convened two high-level meetings – one on ending...

A friend of mine, a diplomat returning home after less than three years’ service in India, was asked at his exit medical examination how many packs a day...

The drama of Donald Trump’s presidency has centered around whether an extremist president would be able to carry out an extremist policy agenda against...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is locked in a bitter public feud with the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Modi’s attempts to encroach...

Economics teaches that the measure of an individual’s wellbeing is the quantity and variety of goods he or she can consume. Consumption possibilities are...