Politics
From hope to hesitation: The price of incompetence
By Vox Civis The most revealing political lesson of recent months may not have come from Colombo at all, but from a magazine...
Disappearing margin for error: Political time bomb beneath Sri Lanka’s recovery
By Vox Civis The crisis confronting Sri Lanka today is not merely economic, it is increasingly becoming a crisis of credibility. That distinction...
“The last government” claim: Is Sri Lanka’s democracy under strain?
By Vox Civis Notwithstanding the booming May Day rhetoric of the ruling party’s leadership, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the reality unfolding...
The missing millions: Who knew, who didn’t, and why it matters
By Vox Civis The sequence of events that followed has now become all too familiar: an investigative committee being hastily appointed and several...
Numbers don’t lie: The contradictions that undermine the NPP
By Vox Civis What begins as a scandal in sunny Sri Lanka, rarely remains confined to a single ministry. Today, one such scandal...
A vote won, a nation lost: The moral collapse behind the coal controversy
By Vox Civis Parliament last Friday (10) witnessed yet another familiar spectacle of a no-confidence motion debated, defended, defeated, and, in the process,...
Austerity for the many: Accountability for the few
By Vox Civis There is a telling contrast unfolding in South Asia, one that Sri Lanka would do well to examine closely, not...
Rules for some, chaos for others: Overcoming the global energy lockdown
By Vox Civis Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared something that would have sounded profound in the pre-Trump era, but not these days....
