Tag: Democracy

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 ...

California state officials on Monday announced plans to file a federal lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the president’s decision to deploy the National ...

Today, June 4, marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—a moment of both tragedy and hope. It was the bloody end to a nationwide democracy movement that brought ...

American democracy is eating its own tail. We have elected a president whose administration is determined to thwart the Constitution, undermine the courts, and trammel basic rights. Though Americans are ...

This week, U.S. presidential envoy Richard Grenell met with members of Venezuela’s government in Antigua and Barbuda. It was the latest round of negotiations between Washington and Caracas over everything ...

The meeting this week between a U.S. president who doesn’t care a fig for democracy and a former anti-American jihadist who is swiftly discovering that democracy isn’t likely to work ...

Donald Trump’s victory in November has given rise to much soul-searching among progressives. How could a plurality of U.S. voters embrace a man who seems to relish the persecution of ...