Former President Donald Trump suggested that US democracy isn’t fair and is in tatters following his 2020 election loss and flurry of indictments. “This democracy — I don’t consider us ...
There are stern diplomatic letters—and then there’s the one received on Sept. 14 by Sweden’s foreign ministry, addressed to Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom. The petulant letter is written by his ...
Sometimes our assumptions are so ingrained that we hardly notice they’re assumptions. They can seem obvious. So it is with the widespread conviction that freedom and democracy are natural parts ...
“The dissolution of the institutions” decreed on Wednesday during the coup “is temporary”, he said in a speech. “It is a question of reorganising them in order to make them ...
Military officers seized power on Wednesday, minutes after an announcement that Bongo had secured a third term in an election. The officers placed Bongo under house arrest and installed General ...
In December 1977, a style of rule associated with medieval Europe was visited upon a hitherto obscure country tucked away deep in equatorial Africa. There, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, a onetime commander of a ...
According to Nashat al-Daihi, the host of an Egyptian television program called “With Pen and Paper,” I am in the pay of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was not the only ...
Pakistan is living under the pall of authoritarianism as the rowdy circus of political survival pushes the urgent need for reform and accountability into the shadows. Rights activists say successive ...
Niger was, in many ways, one of the West’s last and best hopes for a flailing, decades-long counterterrorism campaign in the Sahel region of Africa. The West African country, though ...
Long before freedom of speech was enshrined in the first amendment of the American Constitution, the philosopher S.G. Tallentyre wrote the phrase often attributed to Voltaire: “I may not agree ...
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