Governance

Tuberculosis

When new medications lose their efficacy immediately

Military recruitment

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment

South Asia

In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy

Our view

History did not end

Extreme weather

Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains

Illicit drugs

How opium became a pillar of the British Empire

Slavery

The forgotten Arab slave trade

Constitutional law

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has been defanged

Fiction

A story is always part of the currents of its time