China has provocatively added a 10th “dash” to its map of the South China Sea, and this dash extends around Taiwan. The public release of the new 10-dash map has angered China’s neighbors, including the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Brunei,…
The G20 Summit held in New Delhi on Sept. 9 and 10 was, from the perspective and needs of the West, a lot of sound and light signifying not very much. Some Western observers might call it a super-sized nothing burger…
Every year, millions of Americans depend on drugs like carboplatin, a common cancer drug, and antibiotics to save their life, but that doesn’t mean they’re readily available. America’s drug shortage problem, which has been festering for decades, has become a…
On Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. local time, 70 million people watched breathlessly, glued to their screens, as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft hovered over the desolate landscape of the moon’s South Pole. Like a Pac-Man character, the craft was first above the…
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China Roger D. Kaplan (Random House, 400 pages, $23.23) In his new book The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China, Robert Kaplan…
India has just pulled off a major scientific feat. It is evidence of what national mobilization can do. There is doubtless rejoicing in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, the site of the launch installation; in Bangalore, home of the Indian Space Research…
With annual inflation at only 3 percent in June, and second quarter GDP growing at 2.4 percent, it looks like a return to normalcy. With the S&P Index up over 19 percent year to date, and the NASDAQ Composite Index…
While full details of the protocols between the United States and India have not yet emerged, it is clear that Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, triumphed at his trip to the United States. Seldom has a head of state received…
I don’t have kids, but for several years I’ve belonged to a Facebook group for people who absolutely despise Norwegian Child Welfare Services, known in Norway as Barnevernet. Many if not most of the group’s members are parents whose children…
