Project Syndicate
Does Pakistan still matter to India?
India could not always afford to ignore Pakistan, which was long a source of terrorism directed at India.
Will Boeing crash shareholder value?
There is a fundamental problem with how Boeing is being run.
No barbarism without poetry
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
Nato is not a hegemonic burden
Why is US paying twice as much as the average Nato ally when it is geographically removed from all major conflict zones?
Indian democracy’s moment of truth
Once admired for its commitment to pluralism, India no longer stands out as a model democracy.
What fundamentalist Christians see in Trump
Now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, it seems fitting to address a source of perplexity that has persisted ever since he arrived on the political scene: how can the US’ fundamentalist Christians be so enthusiastic about so thoroughly un-Christian a politician?
Why China won’t fight the Houthis
The current turmoil in the Middle East is not bad news for China.
Does India have a hit list?
The attempted murder of Sikh separatist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen, in New York City, allegedly at the behest of an Indian government official in New Delhi, has cast a shadow over India’s global image.
India, Gaza, and the drift from non-alignment
For decades after independence, India’s approach to the world was shaped by its historical experience of colonialism.
Fixing global economic governance
Rarely have the shortcomings of world leaders and existing institutional arrangements been so glaringly obvious.
The real dividing line in Israel-Palestine
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
What will follow Hamas’ war?
Israeli clarions are trumpeting vengeance. When they fall silent, introspection will follow.
Freedom without justice
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Down on the Biden economy
Why do voters give Biden’s economy a lousy 36 percent approval rating?
Inequality and democracy
Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?
Israel’s moment of reckoning is long overdue
For decades, Israel has tried to manage the conflict, only to be managed by it.
