When Trump Meets Kim Jong Un By Toby Dalton and Ariel Levite
After U.S. President Donald Trump announced earlier this month that he would consider holding a spring summit with North Korean …Read More
Globalization Is Not in Retreat By Susan Lund and Laura Tyson
By many standard measures, globalization is in retreat. The 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession brought an end to …Read More
Is Democracy Dying By Gideon Rose
Centralization of power in the executive, politicization of the judiciary, attacks on independent media, the use of public office for …Read More
Cuba After the Castros By Marguerite Jimenez
Cuba is about to enter a new era. For the first time in nearly 60 years, the country will be …Read More
The Big Shift By Walter Russell Mead
As Americans struggle to make sense of a series of uncomfortable economic changes and disturbing political developments, a worrying picture …Read More
Here Are All the Reasons Striking Syria Was a Bad Idea By Ted Galen Carpenter
The air and missile strikes that the United States and its British and French allies launched against Syrian government targets …Read More
Back to Brinkmanship By Jacob Heilbrunn
AT THE heart of the original Cold War was nuclear confrontation. In his 1945 essay “You and the Atomic Bomb,” …Read More
Our economic quagmire | Editorial
If media reports are to be believed, the value of the US dollar has increased to Rs115 as per the …Read More
Nuclear waste | Editorial
Last month, the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, was found to …Read More
Pakistan and its rural dilemma | Editorial
Poverty has remained Pakistan’s legacy and its quantum has deepened over the years. The country’s poverty crisis is largely concentrated …Read More
Bombs won’t save Syria’s children Editorial
With so many crazy contradictions illuminated by the rocket’s red glare and the bombs bursting in air over Syria on …Read More
China factor in Afghan peace By Samran Ali
The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Li Baodong, speaking at Tashkent Peace Conference on Afghanistan, extended China’s support to the inclusive …Read More
The Indo-Iran Syndrome & Pakistan By Imran Malik
India’s strategic posturing in the IOR continues unabated. Its acquisition of bases/port facilities at Duqm, Oman and Chahbahar, Iran in …Read More
Inside the Marines’ new mission in Afghanistan: Taking back territory previously won By Dan Lamothe
BOST AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — In a dusty open-air building with houseflies buzzing, Marines here received a call for help. Afghan …Read More
Trump and the rest of the world offer little hope for Syrian refugees By Ishaan Tharoor
Speaking to The Washington Post last week, a senior administration official offered a concise version of President Trump's ideal national-security …Read More
Lost pluralism in India By Kuldip Nayar
CHIEF Minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that the Kashmiri pundits should visit their place of origin, meaning thereby the valley. …Read More
Right to education without discrimination By Naumana Suleman
In March 2018, The UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome report of Pakistan’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The …Read More
Revisiting refugee question | Editorial
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has confirmed what this country has long known: Pakistan has hosted the …Read More


