Following dismal results in Japan’s parliamentary elections, there is a broad consensus among Japanese lawmakers and political analysts that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s days are numbered. No one, however, seems ...
Only six months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has already wrought unprecedented chaos upon the government and society of the United States. He issued more than 20 ...
On July 26, Taiwan will set a new record for a developed democracy, holding recall referendums for 24 opposition legislators as well as one opposition mayor. This is nothing to ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s most ardent supporters sometimes depict him as a new Winston Churchill. It is not hard to understand why. Both men demonstrate innate understanding of the stagecraft ...
Despite the relentless Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities since this summer’s start, Kyiv recently chalked up some impressive wins. A week after “pausing” some U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine, President ...
Muhammadu Buhari, who died on Sunday at age 82, was one of two leaders of Nigeria, along with Olusegun Obasanjo, to rule the country both as military dictator and as ...
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 ...
