There's method in Trump's tariff madness, says Ramesh Thakur. Uniting his America First, anti-Net Zero and anti-DEI policies is an imperative to untangle the US from strategic dependence on an ascendant China.

What if warfare is the normal condition of human society, and peace the exception that requires explanation? Ramesh Thakur looks at some longstanding conflicts and asks how peace might be finally achieved.

96% of US law professors are Democrat donors. It's a reflection of how extreme the anti-conservative bias in the law profession has become, says Ramesh Thakur. How can we hold politically biased judges to account?

Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.

In light of JD Vance's stirring speech in Munich, we're republishing Ramesh Thakur's article from July, when Trump announced Vance as his VP pick – and thus spelled the long-overdue end of the neoconservative movement.

In a wholly unexpected but welcome development, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has released a report highlighting the risks to women of trans 'women' in female sport, says Ramesh Thakur.

A top Hezbollah figure recently admitted: "We’re investing in protests in Western countries, especially among college students." Hamas's secret propaganda network has been tolerated for too long, says Ramesh Thakur.

As a diversity pick thrice over – female, black, South Asian – with no popular mandate, Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate for the modern Democratic Party, says Ramesh Thakur. The election is Trump's to lose.

Europeans' tolerance has been tested to breaking point, says Ramesh Thakur. They would like their countries, stolen from them in fits of absentmindedness, back, thank you very much.

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's comparison between Israel and Hamas is utter nonsense, says Ramesh Thakur. Where to even begin when a man in such a critically important office betrays such jaw-dropping ignorance?