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The Master Paradox: How a Mid-Sized Bank Exposed the Cracks In Brazil’s Power

The Banco Master scandal exposes Brazil’s largest banking fraud, revealing deep regulatory failures and risky reliance on the deposit insurance fund. The bank’s rapid growth, lavish controller lifestyle and political... Read full article

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Central & South Asia
FO Interview: The Khonoma Reconciliation Process
by Charles Chasie & Roberta Artemisia Campani
Economics and Finance
Why the Houthis Have Held Back: Yemen’s Calculated Restraint in a Regional War
by Abdul Galil Shaif
Europe
European Leaders, Convened in Elsinore, Sign Declaration of Independence From the US
by Peter Isackson & Claude Eyous
Middle East News
When Strategy Fails, Civilian Infrastructure Becomes the Target
by Alice Johnson

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

by Ellis Cashmore

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Fog of Foreknowledge Versus the Clarity of War

Two early-century warnings — Wesley Clark’s revelation of a Pentagon regime-change plan and William Burns’s memo on NATO’s Russian redlines...

Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley

One journalist describes Peter Thiel as a fan of the Bible. Columnist Ross Douthat calls him...

Trump Makes Wars of Religion Great Again!

From Bush’s War on Terror to Trump’s strikes on Iran, US foreign policy has quietly transformed...

Beware Hubris: Trump’s Iran War Has an Ozymandias Flavor

Never short of hyperinflated self-praise and self-adulation, US President Donald...

by Alan Waring

The Supreme Court of India Has No Spine

by Rishi A. Kumar

Iran Triggers Hormuz Chokepoint Crisis and Risk of Global Stagflation

by Atul Singh & Manu Sharma

The Agency of Middle Powers in a Fragmented and Polarized World

by Thomas Greminger

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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