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The world outside American borders

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The Delhi Paradox

India is simultaneously the world's fastest-growing major economy and a country where the gains from growth are flowing upward with extraordinary speed. To be in Delhi is to understand both halves of that sentence at once.

Priya SundaramMarch 6, 2026
Global

Africa's Billion-Person Bet

The continent's population is set to double by 2050. Whether that becomes a dividend or a catastrophe depends on decisions being made right now.

Kwame Asante13 min
Global

India's Democratic Reckoning

The world's largest democracy has been testing the limits of democratic governance for a decade. The results are a warning that the rest of the world has not adequately absorbed.

Sunita Krishnamurthy13 min
Global

The Asia Pivot That Isn't

India and China are the two most consequential rising powers of the century. The rivalry between them is reshaping Asia faster than Washington has noticed.

Priya Nair14 min
Global

Europe's Long Reckoning

The continent that invented liberal democracy is struggling to defend it. The far right is not the cause — it is the symptom of something deeper.

Sophie Laurent12 min