Ved Nanda

Taliban fighters patrol in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. The Taliban declared an amnesty across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped the main airport as desperate crowds tried to flee the country.

Nanda: How the Taliban rule will determine the regional response

August 31, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

Unlike the hard-nosed extremist regime of the 1990s, the Taliban are projecting an image of moderation, which is met with widespread skepticism.

FILE – In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. For the third time in seven years, U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone, leading to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than are being released to close relatives in the United States. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

Nanda: Migrants from Central America will keep coming without investment abroad

June 25, 2021 at 1:41 p.m.

The numbers are staggering: more than 180,000 migrants, including 10,765 unaccompanied children, primarily from the Northern Triangle region of Central America 鈥� Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador 鈥� entered the...

Nanda: In the U.S. we must reject vaccine nationalism

June 4, 2021 at 12:08 p.m.

Expressions like 鈥渧accine apartheid,鈥� 鈥渧accine nationalism,鈥� 鈥渧accine race,鈥� and 鈥渧accine diplomacy鈥� have entered the global lexicon. What is the reality and how does it affect efforts to combat COVID-19?

Multiple funeral pyres of victims of COVID-19 burn at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Indian authorities are scrambling to get medical oxygen to hospitals where COVID-19 patients are suffocating from low supplies. The effort Saturday comes as the country with the world's worst coronavirus surge set a new global daily record of infections for the third straight day. The 346,786 infections over the past day brought India's total past 16 million.

抖阴ap: Amid despair over India’s deadly COVID-19 wave, hope emerges for international help

April 29, 2021 at 6:01 a.m.

What caused India鈥檚 dreadful second wave of COVID-19? Late last fall, the country seemed to have turned the corner. As an honorary professor at the University of Delhi, I have...

Nanda: The Sikh community mourns another attack, this time in Indianapolis

April 23, 2021 at 9:04 a.m.

Although the motive of the shooter in Indianapolis is still under investigation, Sikhs all over the country fear for their safety as they have often been victims of racist attacks.

A picture taken on November 19, 2020, next to the headquarters of Swiss food giant Nestle in Vevey shows a campaign banner reading in French: "Corporate responsibility initiative, Yes!" ahead of a November 29, 2020 nationwide vote on a people's initiative to impose due diligence rules on Swiss-based firms active abroad. - Swiss voters will decide on November 29, 2020, whether to impose the world's strictest corporate responsibility rules, making multinationals headquartered in the country liable for their and their partners' abusive business practices worldwide. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Nanda: Allow international lawsuits against corporations to stop human rights abuses everywhere

March 26, 2021 at 6:01 a.m.

Should corporations be held liable for their human rights violations that occur abroad?聽 Because of their size and scale of operation, multinational corporations wield phenomenal economic power, several ranking higher...

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / People gather around the body of a man that witnesses say was shot by security forces after breaking curfew, capital of Tigray on February 27, 2021. - Tigray has been the theater of fighting since early November, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced military operations against the northern region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, accusing it of attacking federal army camps. Pro-government troops took the regional capital Mekele in late November but clashes have persisted in the region. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nanda: The massacre in Ethiopia requires pressure from the U.S. to remove Eritrean troops

March 2, 2021 at 1:28 p.m.

The ongoing conflict in Ethiopia could exacerbate ethnic tensions in the country and it threatens stability in the strategically important and already fragile Horn of Africa region. It has split...

Nanda: The U.S. must not abandon Afghanistan again

January 28, 2021 at 12:02 p.m.

The Taliban have not cut their links with terrorists, and they have not ceased violence against civilians. Rather, the violence has increased in recent months, especially in Kabul.

Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Nanda: Biden has an uphill trek to restore America’s global reputation as a world leader

January 4, 2021 at 1:46 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden wants to reconnect with the international community and restore the U.S.鈥檚 role as a world leader to be his top foreign policy priority.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice ...

Ved Nanda: The State Department will soon again play central role in U.S. foreign policy

November 30, 2020 at 4:15 p.m.

In President-Elect Biden鈥檚 words, 鈥淎merica is back.鈥� It is critical to restore American leadership and reinvigorate American diplomacy with the State Department playing a central role in U.S. foreign policy.

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