By Ahan S. Prakash When B.R. Ambedkar wrote India’s constitution, he warned that political democracy cannot survive without social democracy underneath it. That line feelsRead More »USCIRF Report: India’s Minorities Under Threat
By Daniel Frost The midnight bombardment of the long dormant Abu Duhur military airbase in northern Syria marked a genuinely chilling escalation in regional friction.Read More »Israel Hit Syria. Türkiye Was the Target.
Five years after marching back into Kabul, the Taliban has managed something strange. Governance through pure stagnation. Back in August 2021, the world gotRead More »Five Years of Taliban Failure
By Daniel Frost The idea that Hamas has been entirely wiped off the map makes for a convenient political talking point, but it fallsRead More »Hamas: You Can’t Bomb an Ideology Away
Iran is undoubtedly moving into a new chapter of its post 1979 history, but calling it a third republic misses the real story here. TheRead More »Iran After Khamenei
The pattern repeats every election cycle. A candidate like Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, or Zohran Mamdani in New York, gets on the ballot, andRead More »Anti-Muslim Smears in U.S. Politics
There’s an old saying that you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your neighbors. India and Pakistan seem determined to test just howRead More »India-Pakistan: A Dangerous Peace Without Dialogue
Washington is discovering the hard way that shuttle diplomacy can’t force an end to the war in Ukraine just by leaning on the immediate combatants.Read More »Washington’s Ukraine Strategy Has a Missing Piece
The digital iron curtain is dropping, and Washington wants the rest of the world to fall in line behind it. According to a leaked StateRead More »The AI Cold War: Washington Wants the World to Choose Sides
When the Strait of Hormuz effectively locked down under missile fire back in March 2026, global media immediately turned its gaze toward Indonesia. The rupiahRead More »Hormuz and the ASEAN Survival Test
By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst The latest UN Security Council monitoring report basically demolishes whatever diplomatic illusions were still hanging around about theRead More »The UN Report: Inside the Afghan Taliban’s Terror Web
By Daniel Frost | Foreign Affairs Columnist Sun Tzu wrote, know the enemy and know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never beRead More »The West Knows China’s Power. Does It Understand China?