Tag: Democracy

The aesthetics are compelling. Black and white photos of a Tehran University lecture hall with men and women seated side by side wearing the best of 1950s European fashions. Young ...

Ever since the MAGA movement engulfed the U.S. Republican Party, it has harbored two competing foreign-policy tendencies—a muscular internationalism and a neo-isolationist reluctance to intervene. That tension has played out ...

U.S. presidents have big egos—if they didn’t, their chances of reaching the Oval Office would be slim—and they want to be remembered favorably after they are gone. A few presidents, ...

The Founding Fathers of the United States were terrified of monarchy. They designed a constitution that separated and fragmented power, hoping that no single individual would ever amass the kind ...

Monday marks five years since China imposed a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, criminalizing dissent and bringing the semi-autonomous city to heel after months of pro-democracy, anti-government demonstrations ...

Since its publication in 1996, Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order has been globally influential, cited by leaders from Washington to Beijing. Huntington’s ...

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, is on a roll. At home, he enjoys an approval rating of around 83 percent, according to recent polls. His profile is rising abroad, too. ...

Israel’s relentless war on Iran is likely to fundamentally reshape the trajectory of the latter’s history. But this is not likely to be a regime change as it’s typically imagined, ...

After decades of repression, many of Turkey’s Kurds are hopeful that their long struggle for basic rights may finally be nearing a breakthrough. That hope is fueled by newly launched ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at immigration protests in California, Israel’s continued restrictions on aid entering Gaza, and U.S.-China trade talks. Threats of Arrest California state officials ...