Geopolitics and India's place in the world: diplomacy, conflict, alliances and the global events that touch Indian lives.
200 articles
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.
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A 2012 report told of an Indian worker returning home after 18 years of bondage in Saudi Arabia — a stark window into the Gulf migrant-worker trap.
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About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female
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Hilary Rosen's claim that Ann Romney 'never worked a day in her life' detonated a mommy-war controversy in April 2012 — and both campaigns fled the blast.
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Barack Obama's 'we didn't have the luxury' remark about Michelle's $316,962 hospital salary — a gaffe about privilege, debt, and the politics of working
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Bundler Abake Assongba raised $50,000 for Obama's re-election — then was accused of defrauding a businessman of $650,000 and impersonating a bank official.
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Mitt Romney struggled to connect with voters. His wife Ann — warm, candid about MS and cancer — was the asset the Obama campaign couldn't coach against.
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Summer 1989: an all-day date from the Art Institute to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to a Baskin-Robbins curb — and a chocolate first kiss.
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Fidel Merlos-Lopez was refused at the border on his way to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen killed in a Pennsylvania house fire.
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Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.
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The former IMF chief was charged with aggravated pimping in the Carlton Affair probe. Three years later, a French court acquitted him of the charges.
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In March 2012, leaked emails showed Bashar al-Assad and Asma al-Assad shopping for luxury goods as the crackdown killed thousands. Inside the leak.
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As Leon Panetta's plane landed at Camp Bastion on March 14, 2012, an Afghan contractor drove a stolen truck onto the runway in a suicide-bomb attempt.
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After Super Tuesday 2012, Mitt Romney was the GOP frontrunner. What his managerial, crisis-room style said about the candidate — and the country choosing him.
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Putin's tears in Manezhnaya Square after winning Russia's 2012 election — genuine emotion, staged vulnerability, or something else? What that night meant.
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In January 2012, two British tourists were detained at LAX and deported after tweets about destroying America — slang Homeland Security didn't find funny.
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Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their two children to Norwegian social workers in May 2011, igniting a clash of two countries' parenting norms.
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Stephen Colbert's 2012 South Carolina presidential exploration was part joke, part media event, part real Super PAC exposing campaign-finance loopholes.
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On December 10, 2011, tens of thousands of Russians filled Bolotnaya Square in Moscow to protest rigged parliamentary elections — the largest
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In late 2011, the smart money said Barack Obama could not be re-elected with unemployment near 8 percent. Revisiting the case against him — and why it failed.
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