August 5 in retrospect: A narrow escape from total surrender to autocracy
Freedom is not free. We should never forget that our students and young people have paid for it with pools…
What Bangladesh’s widely boycotted election reveals about its future
The peaceful opposition movement started in the summer of 2022 and faced a violent crackdown beginning on October 28, 2023. Since then,…
A country drifting into political paralysis
Ali Riaz uses the Introduction to foreground the book's basic premise and appeals to readers' conscience by stating that the…
Bangladesh’s Quiet Slide Into Autocracy : The End of a Democratic Success Story
Bangladesh’s democratic backsliding is precipitous. Already, the government wields increasingly unchecked power, the opposition is cowed and fragmented, the judiciary…
