Special Reports

Dot-com Bubble 2.0

4 min read
Technology companies that dominated and outperformed throughout the past decade and during the pandemic see their shares plummet in 2022. These companies include Meta ($FB), Amazon ($AMZN), Apple ($AAPL), Netflix...

The rise in xenophobia

6 min read
The newest political squabble revolves around a highly touchy, diplomatically volatile situation, and the issue is slowly getting out of hand. To rally supporters for his cause and concepts, former...

The personalisation of politics

4 min read
Political parties are essential institutions of democracy. They are a group of people organized to acquire and exercise political power. The history of political parties originated in their modern form in...

The state has failed Yameen Rasheed

4 min read
On 19 January, close to five years since the brutal murder of prominent blogger and human rights defender, Yameen Rasheed, the Criminal Court convicted Ismail Haisham Rasheed (21), and Ahmed...

The dark side of the World Cup

5 min read
Qatar joins 17 other nations in the prestigious honour of hosting the FIFA World Cup, the tournament that is watched with unblinking eyes around the world every four years. The...

Media freedom in the Maldives

6 min read
In 2021, Reporters Without Borders ranked the Maldives 72nd in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, a jump of seven places compared to 2020. The ranking was based on repealing...