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Morocco Election Exposes the Limits of Economic Growth Without Political Trust
Morocco’s parliamentary election this week has taken place against an unusual contradiction. The country has attracted substantial foreign investment, expanded infrastructure and positioned itself as an increasingly important manufacturing and commercial hub between Europe and…
India Overtakes Japan to Become World’s Fourth-Largest Economy
India has reached a symbolic economic milestone: on current IMF projections, its nominal GDP is moving past Japan’s, making India the world’s fourth-largest economy behind the United States, China and Germany, with the prospect of…
Four Years After the Taliban Returned to Power, Afghanistan Is More Stable and Less Free. That Combination Is Exactly Why the Regime Is Difficult to Understand.
Four years have now passed since the final American military forces left Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, completing a withdrawal that ended twenty years of US-led military involvement and allowed the Taliban to consolidate control…
Trump Is Building His Second Administration. The Most Important Difference From 2016 Is That This Time He Knows Which Institutions Resisted Him.
Donald Trump’s transition back to the presidency is moving rapidly, and his first appointments already suggest that the second Trump administration may be structurally different from the first. Trump has selected figures including Marco Rubio…
Sheikh Hasina Has Fallen. Bangladesh’s Harder Test Is Whether Removing an Authoritarian Government Can Produce Better Institutions Rather Than Another Cycle of Political Revenge.
Bangladesh has experienced an extraordinary political rupture in the space of one week. On 5 August, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India after fifteen consecutive years in power, following weeks of student-led…
Sheikh Hasina Looked Politically Unassailable. Then a Student Protest Became a Crisis of the State.
Bangladesh is entering one of the most dangerous moments in its recent political history. What began in July as a student movement against the country’s government-job quota system has expanded into a much broader confrontation…
American Universities Are Being Tested by Gaza Protests. The Hardest Question Is Not Whether Protest Should Be Allowed, but When Institutions Should Stop It.
American universities have become one of the most visible political arenas of the Gaza war. During the past two weeks, pro-Palestinian encampments have spread across campuses demanding ceasefires, divestment from companies linked to Israel and…
India’s Economy Is Growing Rapidly. The Harder Question Is Who Gets to Participate in That Growth.
India enters its approaching general election with an economic record that would be politically valuable to almost any incumbent government. The country has remained one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, infrastructure investment has expanded…
China’s Economic Model Helped Produce One of History’s Greatest Growth Stories. It May Now Be Becoming the Problem.
China’s economy is sending increasingly uncomfortable signals. The property crisis that began with heavily indebted developers such as Evergrande has spread towards Country Garden, previously considered one of the healthier major private developers. Consumer spending…
France’s Riots Began With a Police Shooting. They Are About More Than One Police Officer.
France has spent much of this week experiencing its most serious urban unrest in years. On Tuesday morning, police stopped 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk while he was driving in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. Video…
India Is Becoming the World’s Most Populous Country. That Is Neither Good News nor Bad News Yet.
India is becoming the world’s most populous country. The United Nations Population Fund estimates India’s population at roughly 1.429 billion in 2023, marginally ahead of China’s 1.426 billion. The symbolic significance is enormous, particularly because…
Two Trains Were Put on the Same Track. Calling That “Human Error” Does Not Explain Enough.
Late on Tuesday night, a passenger train travelling from Athens towards Thessaloniki collided head-on with a freight train near Tempi in central Greece. The passenger train was carrying around 350 people, many of them university…
