Centralization was pervasive in colonial Iberian America, with Spanish America experiencing it longer and more intensely than Brazil. Endless rules, norms and regulations within an overwhelming ...

In a few short years, a microscopic blob of cells, clinging to the walls of the mother’s womb, transforms into a thinking, feeling, understanding, questioning, acting individual. It will become ...

A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate ...

Few would deny that we are living through a period of political and geopolitical transition. Transitions always bring with them an element of turmoil. Today, power relationships across the globe are ...

Following United States President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, the Republican party should celebrate the dawn of a new golden age. The Make America Great Again (MAGA) party will now ...

I am increasingly sure that no one (very few people) has ever really paid attention to US President-Elect Donald Trump in a way that matters. This is nowhere more apparent to me than in the current ...

We are directly appealing to you through this public letter to proactively address the unending torment of Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh based on a policy of Peace Through ...

India’s goods and services tax (GST) was meant to help organizations file a single indirect tax return rather than multiple tax returns at the central, state and local levels. GST had been under ...

In 1956, a national architecture competition was floated by the New Delhi Public Works Department for a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi. At the time, Habib Rahman was the chief architect of the PWD. The ...

In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, signaling a shift to coalition governance. Botswana's elections reflected dissatisfaction with the Botswana Democratic Party ...

There was no precedent for an effective international criminal tribunal before the Nuremberg Trials — the trials that prosecuted Nazi war criminals and vital leaders for their crimes in World War II — ...

Syria’s plight echoes Iraq’s experience under Saddam Hussein. The collapse of the Assad regime has exposed the vulnerabilities of an overextended state, drawing clear parallels to Iraq’s rapid ...