Trump’s existence as a political phenomenon began with him descending a golden escalator in a tower named after himself. It ended—at least for now—with one of the stars of "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" holding a press conference in a garden center...
With one of the highest populations in the country, the eastern state of Bihar is taking center stage next week as India holds its first big electoral exercise since the spread of COVID-19. The election will be a litmus test not just for how polling...
This is the second instalment in our series No New Lies, where we explore how misinformation, disinformation and conspiracies from history can help us understand the politics of the present. This week, the story of 1948 presidential candidate Henry...
Last month, the New Statesman published a striking interview with the feminist philosopher and author of Gender Trouble Judith Butler – on gender, trans rights, and how these issues have become broadsheet and social media cause célèbres. The...
Three Dalit women are raped every 24 hours, three Dalits are killed and at least two Dalit houses are burnt everyday, according to 2016 data from the National Crime Records Bureau. Despite this, for years these cases of Dalit atrocity rarely made...
This is the second instalment in our series No New Lies, where we explore how misinformation, disinformation and conspiracies from history help us understand the politics of the present. This week, the story of what Donald Trump has learned from the...
I remember reading, years ago, about the last two Jews living in Kabul: the final remnants of a once-proud and thriving community that had called the city home for almost one thousand years; the rest displaced, over the course of the various...
Footage of Deepika Padukone, one of India’s most iconic actors, ran on a continuous loop on news channels this weekend as she attended the office of the Narcotics Control Bureau for questioning. The agency is investigating an alleged Bollywood “drug...