Opinions

Nepal prepares for the national election, which was necessitated following the collapse of KP Sharma Oli’s government in the height of Gen-Z rebellion (youth uprising) in September 2025, which is scheduled for 5 March. The Himalayan nation conducted the last…

To speak seriously of Martin Luther King Jr. today is already to enter into conflict with the form in which he is publicly remembered. King survives as a moral icon precisely because his thought has been stripped of its antagonism.…

When U.S. President Donald Trump publicly expressed interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark, many observers initially dismissed the idea as eccentric political theater. Yet the episode raises deeper geopolitical and philosophical questions about power, sovereignty, and the contradictions within the…

The world is undergoing a seismic shift, transitioning from a unipolar order into an era of tense bipolar rivalry. In this new landscape, the ancient impulse to destroy one another is not diminished but systematized, as competing powers amass vast…

The Myth of Innocence: Why Late Birth Was No Grace at All One of the dumbest sayings of the postwar era is the phrase “the grace of late birth,” coined by former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. It suggests that because one…

As political theorists from ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy understood, the question of who should rule—and how—defines the fate of nations. Two towering figures, Plato and Machiavelli, offered visions in stark opposition, a debate that echoes with uncanny relevance in…

In the volatile landscape of contemporary geopolitics, few arenas are as charged as Iran, a nation caught in the grip of severe internal unrest and external provocation. Waves of protest, driven by profound discontent with political oppression and economic despair,…

by GM Forhadul Mojumdar (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh is grappling with the heavy burden of unemployment. The educated youth of the country are failing to find work after completing their studies. Today, educated unemployment has become one of the most complex…

I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela. By Roger D. Harris The senator’s reply, with…

In today’s rapidly emerging multipolar world, humanity has once again become disposable. The international order that once claimed to defend democracy, human rights, and collective peace has either collapsed or been hollowed out to symbolism. The ideals that once placed…