Pope Francis redefined the papacy in profound ways. As the leader of the Catholic Church, he worked to make it more inclusive of women and the LGBTQ+ community. As the first Latin American pontiff, he ...

Recent figures suggest progress but also mask critical gaps in methodology, data collection and lived experiences.

After receiving a heartfelt and beautifully written review of Blissfully Yours Always by Radha Kapoor, the team at The Pioneer was deeply moved. Inspired by the powerful words of the review, we ...

One of the more surprising - and often missed - aspects of Francis' 12-year papacy was his emergence as an incisive economic ...

Since the 1990s, a number of international commissions and research projects have come up with ways to go beyond GDP. In 2008 ...

The GDP growth rate has many limitations as an economic indicator. It captures only a very narrow slice of economic activity: goods and services. It pays no attention to what is produced, how it is ...

In urban India, the story is no better. A recent CMIE survey found that salaried jobs fell by nearly 10 million between 2019 ...

The U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) track more than 230 performance indicators to determine progress in social, ...

Judicial activism is evident in landmark judgments such as the expansion of Article 21 (right to life and personal liberty) to include the "due process of law," not just "procedure established by law, ...

Schoolteachers, expected to remain neutral, often hesitate to bring current affairs into their teaching, particularly when ...

As a scholar who has researched violent conflict, the Trump administration’s bullying tactics resonate with my experience in ...

When I visited the town of Paiporta recently, the mud and the wrecked cars had been cleared away, but the high-water marks ...