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Broken Chain

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of fast-track courts for paper-leak cases is an acknowledgement that India’s examination crisis can no longer be answered with arrests and assurances alone.

Field Marshal State

There is no officially published change in the numerical position of Pakistan’s Asim Munir in the Warrant of Precedence by virtue of his elevation to the rank of Field Marshal.

Elite Warning

For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin’s compact with Russia’s business elite was straightforward: accumulate wealth, but leave politics to the Kremlin.

Bossing Trump

The First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights (ratified in 1791) is the bedrock for protecting its citizen’s freedom of expression and belief.

Trust on Trial

The nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the United States Federal Reserve comes at a moment when monetary policy has become deeply entangled with politics.

Precarious Balance

The latest exchange between Washington and Beijing is a reminder that beneath the courteous language of diplomacy lies a hard, immovable dispute.

Coping with strain

The conclusion of the India-European Union free trade agreement comes at a moment when the global trading system is under severe strain, shaken by geopolitical rivalries, economic nationalism and the increasingly unpredictable use of tariffs as political weapons.