Bipasha Maity shows that women politicians from historically underrepresented communities have the strongest record.

Bipasha Maity is Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University.

Around the world, authoritarian and populist leaders are eroding civil liberties, weakening democratic checks and balances, and browbeating the press and the judiciary; but rather than taking to the ...

Sania Nishtar sees an urgent need for global coordination and financing to confront new pathogens with pandemic potential.

Cristina Caffarra urges policymakers to resist industry lobbying and bolster the continent’s technological independence.

Standard economic frameworks and metrics for assessing economic output have systematically undervalued the dynamic, long-run ...

US President Donald Trump did not decide to go to war against Iran because he had run out of diplomatic options, or because ...

Timothy Snyder identifies Donald Trump’s authoritarian fantasy and staggering corruption as possible causes of the war.

But while it takes only one side to begin a war, it takes two to end it – and Iran now has a vote in how big this conflict ...

A new study across 38 countries found that among adults aged 20-45 who work from home at least one day per week, actual ...

Christopher Marquis describes a strategy that would enable vaccine makers to revive critical research when the political tides turn.

Anne O. Krueger worries that new plans to revitalize the US maritime sector may deepen its self-inflicted decline.