Politics

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

February 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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

February 6, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 27, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

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

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

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

January 8, 2011 · 1 min read

As 2011 began, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari looked politically finished — a shaky coalition, a power crisis, and the army watching. A look back.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

In October 2010, separatist leader Geelani and author Arundhati Roy shared a stage in Delhi demanding 'azadi' for Kashmir — and ignited a national firestorm.

December 28, 2010 · 1 min read

Assange's lawyer told Al Jazeera a secret US grand jury had been empaneled in Virginia, even as a financial blockade and a Swedish warrant closed in.

December 15, 2010 · 1 min read

Pakistan's own army website listed an ISI operative who died in a Delhi hospital in 2007 - an accidental admission Islamabad never acknowledged.

December 15, 2010 · 1 min read

New leaks from the Niira Radia wiretaps deepened India's 2G scandal and forced a reckoning over journalists acting as power brokers.

December 15, 2010 · 1 min read

Cablegate in 200 seconds: what the 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables actually revealed about Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Berlusconi.

December 13, 2010 · 1 min read

In December 2010, India's ambassador to the US Meera Shankar was pulled from an airport line in Mississippi and patted down over her sari.

December 10, 2010 · 1 min read

In December 2010, Pakistani papers ran fake WikiLeaks cables smearing India's military — until the Guardian's database search found nothing.

December 10, 2010 · 1 min read

Hacker, activist, fugitive: at 39, Julian Assange is wanted by Sweden and hunted by governments. A profile of the man behind WikiLeaks.

December 2, 2010 · 2 min read

The Radia tapes ensnared politicians, tycoons, and journalists. Yet the fury fixed on the women. On the gendered script of the 2010 tapes scandal.

December 2, 2010 · 2 min read

Some called for Hillary Clinton to resign over the WikiLeaks cables. On why the case was structural, the cause was elsewhere, and she stayed.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court claiming the leaked Niira Radia tapes violated his right to privacy. On the collision of public interest and private

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Velma Hart told Obama at a town hall she was ‘exhausted’ defending him. Months later she lost her job. On what happened — and what didn’t get proven.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

How did a 22-year-old analyst exfiltrate hundreds of thousands of classified files? On the institutional failures — physical, procedural, human — behind the

November 29, 2010 · 1 min read