After an unexpectedly eventful 2024, which saw the fall of the Srettha Thavisin administration, the dissolution of the Move Forward Party, and the appointment of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister, 2025 is shaping up to be another year to watch out for in Thai politics, as the Pheu Thai government enters a new year in…

My friend Kwan Limbhasut runs an education advisory service, and she invited me to have a conversation on her channel about what the social sciences are, and how aspiring social scientists can navigate potential career options in Thailand. Check out the two episodes below!

On the first day of the year, then-prime minister Srettha Thavisin declared that Thailand was about to enter a new era “that will make up of nine years of missed opportunities.” As 2024 comes to a close, it is worth taking a look at how this year unfolded in Thai politics— although just the fact…

I was on Suthichai Yoon’s English show with former Minister attached to the Office of the Prime Minister, K. Suranand Vejjajiva, to discuss Thaksin Shinawatra’s recent moves.

I was on Suthichai Yoon’s show to discuss Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s first one hundred days. The show was recorded in Thai.

For superstitious Thais, a lot of factors go into determining fortunes — hence why expert astrologers are needed to help everything from names to founding times. For the newly formed People’s Party (PP), successor to the Move Forward Party, some may start wondering whether now is the time to question if the spiritual consultants had…

One of the biggest open questions in Thai politics is 1) what the “grand compromise” between the Thaksinites and the conservatives entailed, and 2) whether or not there is a possibility that it might fracture. Back when I co-wrote this piece on the grand compromise, the state of the grand compromise still looked pretty tidy:…

The military drafted Constitution passed in the referendum in 2016 and implemented in 2017 is set to break the record of being the longest serving constitution since the 1960s given the current parliamentary quagmire. Over the past 92 years since Thailand’s transition to constitutional monarchy, the country has had 20 constitutions, and a quick math…

Without a proper vision from the government and the determination to carry it out, education in Thailand is in danger of stagnating even more. In her policy statement to Parliament on September 12, Thailand’s newly appointed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said, “Thai education still has several qualitative obstacles and is unable to produce a workforce…

So first, the ignominious statistics. The People’s Party, since it became the now-dissolved Move Forward Party’s (MFP) successor party, has now contested three elections: local elections in Phitsanulok and Ratchaburi and the Constituency 1 by-election also in Phitsanulok. In the election for Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO) chairman in Phitsanulok, the People’s Party (PP) candidate Siripan…