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BRICS and Xi Jinping's "four pioneers": A blueprint for a changing world

Bangladesh, Sept. 15 -- The world is entering an era defined less by certainty than by disruption. Geopolitical rivalries are deepening, economic fragmentation is accelerating, technological competiti... Read More


Kazakhstan's independent press under siege: The closure of Orda and the cost of speaking out

Bangladesh, Sept. 15 -- The disappearance of one of Kazakhstan's leading independent news outlets has intensified concerns over the future of press freedom in a country where critical journalism is fa... Read More


Politico's lobbyist echo chamber shows what's wrong with Washington media

Bangladesh, Sept. 15 -- Washington's political swamp does not drain simply because Congress leaves town. Lawmakers may return to their home districts, congressional offices may grow quieter and the ma... Read More


When a surrogacy dream collapses: The human cost of world center of baby's fall

Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- For couples desperate to become parents and women who agreed to carry children for them, commercial surrogacy is often presented as a carefully managed journey toward a life-ch... Read More


Trump's Korea gamble is putting America's Asian alliances at risk

Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- For years, US President Donald Trump's most dramatic attacks on traditional American allies have been directed at Europe. But Washington's increasingly transactional approach t... Read More


Sudan's civil war is becoming a regional time bomb

Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- When fighting erupted in Khartoum in April 2023 between Sudan's Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), it was initially viewed as another devastati... Read More


American citizenship is not a commodity

Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- American citizenship should never be something wealthy foreign nationals can purchase through a travel package, a hospital appointment and a carefully scripted story for immigr... Read More


NATO's Arctic ambition: Is the West turning the high north into a new front against Russia?

Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- For decades, the Arctic was treated as a place where even geopolitical rivals could find reasons to cooperate. Scientific research, environmental protection, maritime safety, i... Read More


Democrats' foreign election interference double standard

Bangladesh, Sept. 13 -- For years, Democrats warned Americans that foreign interference posed an existential threat to the integrity of US elections. They invoked Russia, intelligence agencies and nat... Read More


BRICS at 20: Why the Global South is betting on a bigger, stronger bloc

Bangladesh, Sept. 13 -- For two decades, critics have repeatedly predicted the demise of BRICS. They have questioned whether countries with different political systems, economic priorities, cultures a... Read More