Politics

Bradley Manning, 23, went from Army intelligence analyst in Iraq to the prime suspect behind the biggest leak in U.S. military history.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes, Karnataka mining, UP foodgrain, the IPL franchise row — on the scandals defining India in late

November 27, 2010 · 1 min read

Nitish Kumar's JD(U)-BJP alliance swept Bihar 2010 with 206 of 243 seats — a landslide for development politics that decimated Lalu's RJD and Congress.

November 24, 2010 · 2 min read

Corruption in India is not a moral failing but an incentive problem: discretionary power, underpaid bureaucracy, and campaign finance.

November 23, 2010 · 1 min read

Pakistani journalist Jawed Naqvi's critique of Indian corruption provoked outrage — and uncomfortable recognition. On the messenger, the message, and 2010's

November 23, 2010 · 1 min read

In November 2010 Iran's parliament revealed it had planned to impeach President Ahmadinejad — and was stopped only by the Supreme Leader.

November 23, 2010 · 1 min read

Japan's justice minister Minoru Yanagida resigned in November 2010 after joking that his job required remembering only two phrases.

November 22, 2010 · 1 min read

The Niira Radia tapes — nearly 5,900 intercepted calls placed before the Supreme Court in November 2010 — exposed the lobbyist networks behind the 2G scandal.

November 20, 2010 · 1 min read

India and Pakistan agreed to tone down the aggressive Wagah border ceremony after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knees.

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read

Nepal planned to import India's Haryana and Sahiwal cow breeds to lift dairy output — a deal as much about shared heritage as milk.

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read

The Louisiana governor — touted as a future president since 2007 — said in November 2010 he wouldn't seek the 2012 GOP nomination.

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

November 14, 2010 · 1 min read

Obama told the Indian parliament in November 2010 that a stable Pakistan serves India's interests. Logically sound — and operationally complicated.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

India and Britain have never quite built a relationship to match their people-to-people ties. Empire, migration, and the almost-special relationship.

November 7, 2010 · 1 min read

In 2010 Manmohan Singh quietly asked his cabinet to stop naming every scheme after the Nehru-Gandhi family — the politest rebellion Delhi had ever seen.

November 3, 2010 · 1 min read

In the 2010 Bihar assembly elections, women outvoted men — 54.85% to 50.77% — quietly rewriting the state's political arithmetic as the fear factor faded.

October 30, 2010 · 1 min read

They are called half widows — women in Kashmir whose husbands vanished in the conflict, stuck in legal limbo: no death certificate, no inheritance, no way

October 28, 2010 · 1 min read

When India's tennis star married Pakistan's cricket star Shoaib Malik in April 2010, nationalists on both sides fumed — but the real story was simpler and

October 27, 2010 · 1 min read

Does Barack Obama feel the economic pain of ordinary Americans? An editorial look at the empathy gap between his rhetoric and lived reality in 2010.

October 27, 2010 · 1 min read