Articles by The Rift Team

A massive civilian armada departs Barcelona to challenge the Gaza blockade and the ‘doctrine of impunity.’

Between tolls in the Strait of Hormuz and the tactical decoupling of the Lebanon front, the ‘slow motion’ collapse of the Islamabad talks was pre-written in its own loopholes.

Over 166 days of administrative maneuvering, Uttar Pradesh’s electoral roll was pruned by a staggering 13.2%. What began as a high-stakes technological cleanup has evolved into a central flashpoint for Indian democracy.

The state has discovered an elegant loophole by reclassifying bureaucratic accountability as personal privacy to dismantle the Right to Information.

The violence of modern voter suppression doesn’t happen at the polling booth; it happens through CAPTCHAs, unsearchable PDFs, and the black-box logic of state algorithms.

Under the guise of transparency, the proposed bill introduces “automatic cessation” and a “Designated Authority” to permanently confiscate schools, hospitals, and land built by minority organizations to serve marginalized communities.

By replacing jail sentences with financial penalties, the state officially concedes that for giant conglomerates, breaking the law is simply another line item on the balance sheet.

The military campaign by US-Israel in the Middle East has definitively abandoned the pretense of surgical precision, opting instead to dismantle the foundational civilian and industrial backbone of the Iranian state.

India’s new law replaces the constitutional right to self-identification with a medical board’s verdict, turning personhood into a permit.

The Central Board of Film Certification’s refusal to clear an Oscar-nominated docudrama underscores a profound shift in Indian censorship—where domestic cultural regulation is increasingly tethered to the diplomatic sensitivities of foreign allies, revealing the fragile optics of geopolitical pragmatism.

By outsourcing surveillance to corporate algorithms, the state has built a censorship machine that leaves citizens with zero legal recourse.

The disjointed Europe Iran war reaction exposes the continent’s complete geopolitical irrelevance as the US and Israel dictate global security.

The US-Israel alliance fracture is exposed as Israel defiantly bombs Tehran during Trump’s mandated five-day pause. Is this the end of US leverage over Israel?

As the ruling dispensation explores an early rollout for the 33% women’s quota in Parliament, the move signals a high-stakes electoral gamble aimed at pre-empting the delimitation quagmire.

A landmark decision allowing the withdrawal of life support for a man in a 13-year vegetative state is a triumph of compassion—but it exposes the paralyzing absence of federal action.

By ruling that parental income alone cannot exclude OBC candidates, the Supreme Court has corrected decades of hostile discrimination within India’s reservation framework.

Deadlines in government are supposed to mark progress. But New Delhi’s March 2026 mandate to “cleanse” Bastar feels desperately like an expiration date on civic accountability.

The IEA triggers the “nuclear option” of oil reserves as the US-Israel-Iran conflict chokes the Strait of Hormuz.

The findings suggest that these blockades function less like targeted diplomatic leverage and more like wide-spectrum economic warfare.

American airstrikes in Iran have severely damaged ancient UNESCO World Heritage sites like the Golestan Palace, sparking fury over the destruction of global history.

Opposition parties prepare an unprecedented impeachment motion against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, citing voter roll deletions, partisan conduct, and the erosion of Election Commission independence.

The victims span four states, three age groups, and both genders. What connects them is faith, and what follows them is a familiar choreography: a crime, a delayed FIR, a local uproar, a national silence, and then the next incident.

U.S. President Donald Trump hints at an imminent resolution to the US-Israeli war on Iran. Iran responded that it will decide when and how to end this war

A straightforward explainer on Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, detailing his history as an administrator and his connections to the military.