Meera Pillai
Politics & Policy Editor
Meera writes on elections, sanctions and statecraft, translating the machinery of governments into plain language for readers on every continent.
Articles by Meera Pillai
Politics
How Sanctions Actually Work — and Why They So Often Don't
The world's most-used foreign policy tool sits between talking and shooting. Its record is more complicated than either its fans or critics admit.
Politics
Washington's Midterms Are a Domestic Election With a Global Blast Radius
Control of Congress shapes trade, aid, alliances and tariffs. Here is how the rest of the world reads an American midterm.
Politics
BRICS Keeps Adding Members. What the Expanding Club Can — and Cannot — Do
The bloc now spans major energy exporters and most of the Global South's heavyweights. Its ambitions are large; its machinery is loose.