Politics

Cameron’s April 2011 immigration speech and the “tens of thousands” pledge he never met — the ambition, the broken promise, and the road it started.

China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy in 2010. On the economic facts of China’s rise — and the contested question of what it would do

The 2011 Census found India’s child sex ratio had fallen to 914 — and worse in affluent states. Why awareness campaigns alone won’t fix son preference.

With hours to a midnight shutdown in April 2011, failed Capitol talks threatened to furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers and stall the recovery.

April 2011: gasoline pushing toward $4 a gallon, and the White House's message to drivers was effectively to get used to it. A period editorial.

When a boy is born, laddoos are distributed. When a girl is born — silence, or jalebis. What the sweet code reveals about India’s 914 girls per 1,000 boys.

In 2011, Donald Trump’s presidential flirtation looked like pure publicity. Revisiting the question five years later — and what the models missed.

On April 5, 2011, Anna Hazare began a fast unto death at Jantar Mantar for a strong Jan Lokpal Bill — with voices like Aamir Khan's joining the chorus.

April 4, 2011: Parliament’s PAC questioned Ratan Tata and Niira Radia on the 2G spectrum case — Joshi called Tata candid and Radia evasive.

March 2011: Lelyveld's 'Great Soul' was banned in Gujarat before critics had read it, while reviews sold Gandhi as weirdo, incompetent, faddist.

Pakistan armed militant proxies for strategic depth against India and Afghanistan. Then the proxies turned. On the blowback decades in the making.

Benghazi's fall to Libyan rebels in February 2011 created the Arab Spring's first liberated city -- and the platform from which Gaddafi's regime would end.

In February 2011, an anonymous online call urged Chinese 'Jasmine Revolution' protests in 13 cities. How Beijing's show of force snuffed it out.

On February 14, 2011, thousands marched in Tehran chanting 'Mubarak, Ben Ali, now it's Seyyed Ali's turn.' Inside Iran's day of rage.

In February 2011, Tehelka published the Liechtenstein list the government had kept sealed for two years: 15 names in the LGT black-money accounts.

With Mubarak still in power in February 2011, every Arab capital asked the same question: which regime falls next? The anatomy of a contagion.

On Jan 27, 2011, the government told the Supreme Court the palmolein chargesheet against CVC P.J. Thomas never reached his selectors. Sushma Swaraj disagreed.

On January 25, 2011, the Day of Rage brought tens of thousands of Egyptians into the streets. How Tunisia lit the fuse under Mubarak's 30-year rule.

How Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2010 sparked the Tunisian revolution -- and the Arab Spring.

A Virginia court secretly ordered Twitter to surrender five WikiLeaks-linked accounts. WikiLeaks demanded Google and Facebook disclose their own subpoenas.