When it comes to its treatment of women, India’s entertainment industry needs a reality check. “We can’t cast her, she’s too fat.” “What am I going to do with an actress who can act but doesn’t look good?” I lapped up these statements as harmless feedback for a year and a half...

All powerful governments feature assassination in their strategic toolbox. Although the ongoing investigation has not yet produced any clear-cut results, leaders of the Western powers were immediately convinced that the Kremlin ordered the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in the UK town of Salisbury....

What does Latin America’s bumper election year hold in store for the continent? A spate of elections will make 2018 decisive for Latin America. As the world marches toward a more conservative and even authoritarian future, this year’s presidential elections — in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia,...

There is hardly any reason for India to not prioritize its partnership with Israel over Palestine in pursuit of its strategic interests. On various occasions, India’s diffidence, indecisiveness and a highly constrained foreign policy have perplexed international relations experts. In one such...

A singer from Nevada believes in the quasi-theological interpretation of the Second Amendment put forward by the NRA. Everyone thinks of the United States as a nation or sovereign state. They also know it is the most powerful nation — economically and militarily. But they often fail to notice the...

In America, the gender wage gap continues to loom over the economy. Women in America make 22% less per hour than men. The rate of women in employment is rising and there are more female graduates than male, yet a wage gap still exists in 2018. On Equal Pay Day in the US, which took

Cuba will remain a one-party authoritarian state, with or without a Castro at the helm. On April 19 Raúl Castro will step down as Cuba’s president, ending almost six decades of his family’s rule of the Caribbean island. Contrary to some expectations, however, Havana will not embark on an...

Recent trade skirmishes between China and the United States are less about steel and soybeans and more about which country will be the leader in global innovation in the 21st century, writes Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett in this opinion piece. The escalation of tariffs between China and the United...