Column by Mahfuz Anam / July charter implementation: Growing distance between BNP and the opposition is worrisome
24 July 2026, 00:00 AM
After our Liberation War, we started off with the parliamentary system of government. Then Bangabandhu himself betrayed that vision and that of multiparty democracy by instituting BAKSAL, a one-party system, and introducing the presidential model of government.
24 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam / 250 years of US independence: Do Americans know or care about their founding principles?
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
America’s most powerful attraction—freedom of thought—is under stress today.
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam / The PM says police don’t belong to any party. Can we establish this in practice?
15 May 2026, 00:00 AM
The prime minister’s quote that I use as the headline of this column is music to our ears, constituting the most vital policy directive that this country needs to take.
15 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam / Politicisation of our professions
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
A fact that we don’t discuss much, and seem to have taken as a given, is the politicisation of our various professions.
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam: 35th anniversary of The Daily Star / When independent newspapers burn, so does democracy
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
When independent, objective and fact-based newspapers are set on fire, it is democracy that burns.
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam / Were we close to a nuclear catastrophe?
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected Iran to crumble when they launched the surprise attack on February 28 while negotiations were going on, killing the latter’s supreme leader and several others.
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam / The challenges before the prime minister
13 March 2026, 00:00 AM
High unemployment, weak investment, the need for job creation, curbing inflation, export diversification, and stabilising the banking sector are among the most urgent economic challenges.
13 March 2026, 00:00 AM
Editor's Note
8 March 2026, 12:30 PM
Justice must not be a distant promise; it must be something every woman and girl can rely on in her daily life.
8 March 2026, 12:30 PM
Contrasting politics in Dhaka and Delhi
HAVE any of our politicians been listening to Arvind Kejriwal's speeches, especially the one after he took oath as the chief minister of the Indian capital? I suppose not. To be fair, neither did the Indian politicians before his magnificent victory in the latest Delhi Assembly polls. If they had, they may not have met the debacle that they did.
22 February 2015, 18:00 PM
Remembering our language martyrs
Ekushey February provides a soul-stirring occasion to reflect on the long road we have travelled since some of our brave young men died in defence of the mother tongue in 1952. On the one hand, we go back in time to recreate within our collective consciousness the
22 February 2015, 04:43 AM