Tag: Democracy

At the end of August, nationwide protests rocked Indonesia, with demonstrators in Jakarta trying to break down the gates of parliament. The spark was a plan by lawmakers to circumvent ...

In June, Mexico’s ruling Morena party celebrated the most demonstrative political win in the country in more than 30 years. Morena’s Claudia Sheinbaum, the preferred successor of current President Andrés ...

In mid-January, Phil Gordon visited Guatemala to hand deliver a letter from Kamala Harris to a man who very likely owed his presidency to U.S. diplomatic intervention. Bernardo Arévalo de ...

Nearly one month ago, on July 28, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, stole an election. After a campaign period in which opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González consistently led polls, authorities ...

Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a historic speech on Friday, laid out some of the issues with the Democrat Party, pointing to the irony of the fact that Democrats essentially ...

From Oprah Winfrey to the Clintons and the Obamas, a star-studded Democratic National Convention (DNC) came to a close on Thursday night in Chicago with Vice President Kamala Harris formally ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at backlash over Indonesia’s proposed electoral changes, the last day of the U.S. Democratic National Convention, and a major railway strike across ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: In the wake of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans a potential trip to Ukraine ...

U.S. President Joe Biden has pitched himself as a transitional figure—someone who could right the ship after former President Donald Trump’s mercurial tenure while a new generation of Democrats readied ...