Opinion

As in any US national election without an incumbent president, the candidates are painting a not very pretty picture. With Republican front-runner Donald...

High-quality early childhood education is one of those rare issues that unites people of all social strata and across the political spectrum. But the...

Pakistan continues to drift towards intense internal political confrontation, which, if not contained through accommodation, can unravel the current...

Though the end game in Libya appears to be close, I think we can expect it to slide fairly slowly down a chaotic path that could take months. It is looking...

There are no good reasons for Britain to leave the European Union. "Brexit" makes zero sense geopolitically or economically, as exasperated...

Over the last few years, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church’s core message with passionate criticism of unbridled capitalism and a new,...

A few weeks ago, I arranged a conference at my university called Afkar-e-Taza. The title was taken from a couplet by Sir Muhammad Iqbal in his poem called...

China’s adventurism in the South China Sea has prompted a change in Australian policymaking that merits wide international attention. In making...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is on the verge of being thrown out of office. A rolling corruption scandal has roiled the country, and the entire...

There are lots of preconceptions about poverty. On the right, a common idea is that poor people mainly have their own behaviour to blame -- that if they...