Geopolitics
The New Power Map Is Being Drawn in Unexpected Places
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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The Big Story
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.
Geopolitics
A New Era of Global Competition Has Begun
The old assumptions about power, trade, and diplomacy are changing faster than expected.
Geopolitics
The Quiet Realignment of the Global South
Middle powers are learning to bargain with everyone at once.
Geopolitics
Migration and the Borders of Consent
Europe's newest compact will be tested by the first hard winter.
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Indian Policy, Society & Culture
India's Monsoon Cities Were Not Built for This Century
Drainage designed for a colonial-era rainfall map is meeting a warming atmosphere.
Indian Politics
The Federal Bargain Is Being Renegotiated
States are asking harder questions about revenue, representation, and rights.
Indian Politics
The Long Campaign: How Permanent Elections Changed Governing
When every month is a campaign month, policy becomes performance.
Indian Politics
Coalitions of Convenience Are Getting Harder to Hold
Fragmented mandates are producing governments that must govern by negotiation.
Business
Supply Chains Are Being Rewritten Port by Port
Companies are paying a premium for predictability, and the map of trade is shifting with them.
Startups
The Cost of Capital Is Rewriting the Startup Story
Cheap money built a decade of ambition. Expensive money is auditing it.
Tech
The Machines Are Now Drafting the Rules That Govern Them
Regulators are using the same systems they are trying to constrain.
Tech
The Hidden Energy Bill of Computation
Every query has a footprint, and the grid is beginning to notice.
Tech
Inside the Quieter Revolution in the Laboratory
Slow, unglamorous replication work is doing more for medicine than any single breakthrough.
Indian Policy, Society & Culture
Who Gets to Tell the Story in the Museum?
A generation of curators is rewriting the wall text — and the arguments are getting louder.
Lifestyle
The Return of Reading in Public
Something is happening in the reading rooms of the world's crowded cities.
Strategic Affairs
The Case for Patience in an Impatient Republic
Institutions are slow by design. That is the argument for them, not against them.
Indian Politics
Against the Politics of Permanent Crisis
Emergency is a mode of governing that never has to justify itself.
Indian Policy, Society & Culture
The Work of Belonging in a Migrating Century
Cities absorb people faster than institutions absorb change.
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