Matthew Clayfield

Renowned historian William Dalrymple, who’s co-hosting a podcast season on slavery, says the U.S. has often been singled out for a crime committed the world over.

The writer of penetrating histories of India and Afghanistan explains how his new book touches on such modern themes as the non-stop waltz between corporations and government.

Like Trump in the U.S., Modi has encouraged ethnic and religious hatred in India and destroyed norms. In blacked-out Kashmir the silence is deafening.

Hundreds of millions cast their ballots, and the man who billed himself as India’s ‘watchman’ won big after bombing Pakistan. His bellicosity may have been the key to victory.

One knows—because one is not an idiot, however liberal one’s politics—that Europe cannot take on such numbers indefinitely.

For a few days in February two nuclear powers stood at the brink of war. This will happen again and if, or when, there is a South Asian Armageddon you’ll find the reasons here.

I'd made it safely back to the Thailand we all imagine and mythologize, of cities where beer runs along the gutters with the sex.

I don’t know what I was expecting: a war zone, or perhaps a military stronghold. Instead, it strikes me that Pattani would be a tourist hot-spot were it not for its reputation.

Sungai Kolok is the sort of place that passes, in this part of the world, for a den of sin and iniquity.

I’m on my way to Thailand, to the provinces of the country’s deep south, where an ethno-nationalist separatist struggle, with a slight air of jihad, has been underway for years.