It was not surprising that China’s all-powerful president, Xi Jinping, devoted his online address to the World Economic Forum to attacking the new Cold War mentality that is impeding his country...

The geopolitical question of the moment is: how important is it to humour Vladimir Putin? The answer is: not very. Throw him a fish or two, because he’s running a bluff and you don’t want ...

The Cold War sentiment is arising globally. This year would be remembered for solidifying the fault lines between the United States of America and China and sport, like much else, is in the cross hair...

How was this glory birthed? Menand is pragmatic, if not disillusioned. It was neither by sheer talent nor inordinate luck; they owed much of their spectacular fame and triumph in the worlds of art to ...

Sometimes a seemingly small event can capture the zeitgeist. The recent diplomatic feud between India and Britain over Covid-related travel restrictions, which caught unsuspecting travellers off ...

President Joe Biden delivered his debut address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN on Tuesday amid strong new doubts about his ability to vault the US back into a position of global le...

As the Taliban acquired control of Afghanistan and the world saw flashes of Saigon in the messy American withdrawal, it didn’t take long for Afghanistan’s description as a graveyard of emp...

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See A feminist narrative intertwined with history, The Island of Sea Women takes up the story of the female divers at Jeju Island in South Korea and how the events dur...

President Joe Biden and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emerged from their first in-person summit Wednesday and offered broad claims of good will, but it was clear that on issues ranging from cy...

With the world confronting the immediate crisis of a pandemic and the long-term challenge of climate change, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain on Thursday turned for insp...