Politics

140 Years After Key European Colonial Conference, Ongoing Impacts Require Urgent Action European governments have yet to reckon with and meaningfully address the ongoing impacts of their colonial legacies affecting people of African descent on the African continent and in…

Republican ideals have evolved over millennia, shaping governance across the globe. Modern republics continue to adapt, but face challenges in upholding their foundational principles. By John P. Ruehl The 2024 U.S. presidential election was framed as a crucial test for…

As the voting for by-polls in six assembly constituencies of Assam and Meghalaya, obliged to fill up the vacant seats after all the legislators shifted their focus to national politics, concluded peacefully on 13 November evening, the debates surfaced if…

When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The choices he…

At this point, I don’t want to focus on who’s to blame for the tragic election of Donald Trump as President of the United States again. While politicians now debate how to realign their ideological platforms, the immigrant community must…

Having been mostly silent about American imperialism and the havoc that it wreaks, mainstream Western commentators were suddenly very vocal about the American election. They all voiced their opinions and made their predictions. Geopolitical knowledge, on the other hand, was…

Just days after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in the US presidential election, Ambassador Humayun Kabir, a credible commentator on foreign affairs, said in an interview with an independent newspaper Prothom Alo that the bilateral relationship with Bangladesh and…

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free reign to the almighty market. Price…

The election of Donald Trump in the United States marks the definitive change of a political cycle in that country, and if not, in the world. While eight years ago it was thought that Trump was just a political anomaly,…

I believe I’ve figured out why the Democratic Party, my party, has become so markedly out of touch over the course of the last decade. After being unfriended and castigated on social media by more than a dozen of you…