In July, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi replaced India’s three most important pillars of criminal law — the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act ...

China's economy is grappling with a mounting debt crisis, particularly at the local government level, driven by fiscal deficits, shrinking land revenues and implicit debt burdens. This article ...

Is nuclear power a rational solution to the energy crisis? Or is it an expensive, slow-moving relic of the past, even one that defies economic interests? While France and the United Kingdom have never ...

For at least the past five years, The New York Times has put on display its total commitment to highlighting and exaggerating any story that appears, in any way, to implicate Russia in real or ...

New disclosures about the Epstein files place US President Donald Trump, his allies and his record on gender and power in a long line of authoritarian abuse. Fresh evidence forces a public reckoning ...

Dramatic scenes of Yegevny Prigozhin’s mad drive to Moscow shocked the world in June. Prigozhin, the leader of Wagner, a Russian private military organization, turned his guns against the government, ...

Over the past decade, street protests in Iran have erupted repeatedly. At times, economic crises have served as the main trigger; at other moments, political repression or regional tensions have ...

So, as usual, we’ll have a three-part structure. We are going to first ask the question: What are these tensions? Then we are going to pose the question: Why do we have these tensions? And then we ...

Brigitte Bardot was a symbol of female liberation and cinematic allure in the 1960s, yet her later years revealed troubling bigotry and far-right views. Her legacy challenges us to separate art from ...

When coal executives in Jakarta claim that renewable energy is killing their business, they are highlighting only part of the issue. The collapse in global coal prices — combined with shrinking demand ...

Across the West, there is little doubt that the election of US President Donald Trump has brought a wide variety of challenges. Yet it also undeniably presented a lifeline, particularly for a few left ...

The G20 has invited Bangladesh to participate in its annual summit for the first time this year. Bangladesh’s growing economic might and its strategic location at the crossroads between South and ...