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A New Era of Global Competition Has Begun

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A changing global order is reshaping politics, trade, technology, and influence — and the old centres of gravity are no longer holding.

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India's Monsoon Cities Were Not Built for This Century

Kavya Iyer

The Federal Bargain Is Being Renegotiated

Arjun Nair

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The Long Campaign: How Permanent Elections Changed Governing

When every month is a campaign month, policy becomes performance.

Meera Prasad

Indian Politics

Coalitions of Convenience Are Getting Harder to Hold

Fragmented mandates are producing governments that must govern by negotiation.

Devika Rao

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Supply Chains Are Being Rewritten Port by Port

Companies are paying a premium for predictability, and the map of trade is shifting with them.

Nikhil Bose

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The Cost of Capital Is Rewriting the Startup Story

Cheap money built a decade of ambition. Expensive money is auditing it.

Tara Kulkarni

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The Machines Are Now Drafting the Rules That Govern Them

Regulators are using the same systems they are trying to constrain.

Ishaan Verma

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The Hidden Energy Bill of Computation

Every query has a footprint, and the grid is beginning to notice.

Sana Qureshi

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Inside the Quieter Revolution in the Laboratory

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Who Gets to Tell the Story in the Museum?

A generation of curators is rewriting the wall text — and the arguments are getting louder.

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The World Is Entering a New Age of Uncertainty

The geopolitical assumptions that shaped the last generation are beginning to disappear. What replaces them is being decided now.

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