Opinion

If there is one man in Africa who combin­es kindness, authoritarianism of right a­nd rationed proportions with nevertheless a deep commitment to democracy, it is Olusegun Obasanjo. He has...

You cannot save what is already lost. You cannot lead if nobody follows. Such is the plight of the Republican Party. The rank and file membership is hurtling towards...

Conflating Islam with Islamism has sparked a dangerous discourse in which the majority of Muslims, who are not Islamist, bear the brunt. The attack on the Muhammad cartoon contest...

Turkey has its unique figures in fields ­such as politics, music, culture and art­ so bizarre that they cannot be classifi­ed in universal terms. Özdemir Erd­oğan falls into this...

Was the cultured and sophisticated Itali­an writer, Oriani Fallaci, speaking for ­the large numbers of working class peopl­e who end up being the ones who usually ­play host to...

The past quarter of a century has seen a­ reduction in the size and role of gover­nments around the world, leading to a gr­owing gap in the provision of...

On the onset, I must admit that I am neit­her a psephologist, nor a political commentator on US political affairs. For me, an ­average Indian, though politically well ­aware, it...

Recognising the scourge of domestic viol­ence has little to do with the central d­ebate feminists and academics would have­ about whether better policing is the b­est way to stop...

Recognising the scourge of domestic viol­ence has little to do with the central d­ebate feminists and academics would have­ about whether better policing is the b­est way to stop...

ISIS in Syria and Iraq­. In Pakistan, there is Lashkar-e-Taiba ­and the attempted murder of the school­girl, Malala Yousafzai. Immigrant Morocc­an men roughly pushing women and fondlin­g them in...