Will India reach its potential?

India is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country sometime this year. And while China has already passed its demographic zenith and begun to age, India’s ascent will continue for decades. To …

Submarines and nuclear umbrellas

Late in 2022—a year of war, pandemic, climatic disaster and attempted nuclear coercion—a number of news outlets published a photograph of a rare event. True, the photograph was of particular interest to only a small …

Ten lessons from the return of history

Few will miss 2022, a year defined by a lingering pandemic, advancing climate change, galloping inflation, slowing economic growth and, more than anything else, the outbreak of a costly war in Europe and concerns that …