Sumantra Maitra

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  • Oct 26, 2024
  • Sep 3, 2024
    The most important sentence in the Nayib Bukele profile and interview in TIME magazine is a simple question to the interviewer: “How can I ask the Salvadoran people,...
  • Aug 31, 2024
    One of my pet peeves is to observe and chronicle how the 200-year idea of “liberal democracy” is disappearing before our very eyes due to the various new social...
  • Aug 19, 2024
    Ash Sarkar, a “libertarian-communist” British pundit who is the self-declared spokesperson of the British version of “dirtbag left” posted a few...
  • Aug 6, 2024
    It is too soon to tell who will win, but the signs are troubling for the U.S. and India.
  • Jul 18, 2024
    “In a private session Tuesday with the International Republican Institute, an internationalist group founded in the Reagan era, [Mitch] McConnell walked attendees through...
  • Jun 20, 2024
    On an unusually cloudy July day in London in 1990, the heads of state and government at the annual NATO summit declared with sunny optimism that a new era beckoned in central and...
  • Jun 14, 2024
    The British debate about an intervention in the American Civil War is fascinating because it skewers every political theory one might be attached to. 
  • May 28, 2024
    At its peak, the three presidency armies of the East India Company, based at Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, had a combined field ready force of over 260,000 troops, roughly three...
  • Apr 6, 2024
    “European leaders’ biggest concern is Trump’s potential return to the White House in 2025... plans for a ‘dormant NATO’ and advocating a shift from...
  • Feb 5, 2024
    “El Salvador’s success in fighting crime has come at the expense of civil rights and amid accusations that Bukele is taking an increasingly authoritarian turn,”...