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Statesman News Service

Elastic Justice

For decades, the United States projected itself as the world’s foremost defender of rules-based governance.

Hidden Inflation

India’s inflation numbers are beginning to tell two very different stories. One is reassuring.

Shelved Knowledge

On the second of February 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay compressed an empire’s educational ambition into a single sentence: “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia”. The line is often quoted as insult, and it was one.