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  • To Infinity and Beyond?

    A Crucial Juncture It’s now 2012, and some are understandably more optimistic than others. An economic slump that began in 2007 remains Western policymakers’ biggest headache, in addition to near-total currency collapses and debt ceiling pantomimes. Developing countries, long schooled in the Western way to prosperity, should be forgiven for a little gloating. Yet while…

  • India Seems Impressed, How About Everyone Else?

    Almost a week later—and at least a world away—it looks as if things are turning slightly sunnier for Team Obama. The President’s brief hiatus in India seems to be treating him kindly, even if the midterms didn’t. This is, as has been incessantly mentioned, the most time Obama has spent in a foreign country since…

  • Obama Backs Security Council Bid

    President Barack Obama announced  yesterday that he would support India’s attempt to get on the United Nations’ Security Council. Speaking in Mumbai, on the first leg of his ten-day tour of South Asia, he emphasized India’s role in partnering with the U.S to take steps against militancy and terrorism. India has been lobbying for a…

  • Politics: Civil and Dangerous

    The changing face of elections U.S presidential elections are known, among other things, for elaborate campaigns. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign is destined to go down in history for the way it was able to convince people that the election was more about bringing sweeping social change than it was about electing a new head of…

  • The Power of People (and the Headache of Counting Them)

    It’s census time. In the United States, people have been filling out and mailing forms, in addition to being interviewed by officials from the Department of Census. The feat of carrying out a survey of 300 million people is as difficult as it is important. Simultaneously, in another part of the world, census officials are…

  • Around the World

    Of Journeys and Apathy Recently, there was a story in the news of an Afghan teenager who fled his troubled homeland eight years ago to seek asylum in London. His extraordinary modern-day odyssey saw him travel illegally in a truck through Moscow, Eastern Europe and Paris en route to his final destination. The fairytale wasn’t…

  • The Rise of the Third World

    I recall quite vividly my view of the world when I was in elementary school. It all centered on the fact that I was an American, a native-born citizen of the strongest, freest, and most just country in the entire world. Even better, I had the good fortune to have been born in the era…