M A Hossain

POLITICS eventually meets reality. Campaign slogans fade; governing remains. An electoral mandate is not a trophy but a test. For the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),…

BANGLADESH’S gravest threat on the road back to democracy is not procedural delay or partisan mistrust. It is something more elemental: the erosion of the…

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FOUR years into Myanmar’s civil war, the statistics are staggering: over 82,000 dead, 3.2 million displaced and a central government clinging to perhaps a fifth…

THE world spends billions each year to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Treaties are signed, sanctions are imposed and inspectors are sent across the…

The public dispute between Donald Trump and Elon Musk represents a stark diagnosis of the late stages of a declining republic, illustrating how America is…

EACH year on May 31, the world observes World No Tobacco Day, a vital occasion to confront one of the most preventable global health threats.…

  The term “Holocaust” holds immense moral gravity. It should never be used lightly—yet failing to recognize its echoes in the present can be just…

HISTORY teaches us that wars between India and Pakistan only deepen enmities, exacerbate poverty and destabilize the region. As tensions rise once again over the…

SINCE the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the relationship between India and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) has been marked by complexity. While the…