Tag: Democracy

In May 2021, three months after Myanmar’s military took power in a coup, Rupa traveled around 300 miles from her home in the city of Pyin Oo Lwin to enlist ...

In November 2004, Ukraine’s pro-Russian prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, tried to steal the country’s presidential election, triggering the Orange Revolution protests and reactions from the West. Then-U.S. Secretary of State ...

The adoption of a controversial foreign agents law by Georgia’s ruling party in May marked the lowest point in Tbilisi’s relations with the West since it declared its pro-Western foreign-policy ...

Donald Trump is a menacing “villain” who would empower violent paramilitary groups and undermine American democracy if he returned to the White House, according to a recent piece in The ...

 In his office in Tbilisi’s central Vake district, puffing cigarette after cigarette, Levan Sutidze, editor in chief of Tabula, was busy denouncing the Georgian government’s latest actions—something that’s become almost ...

MUMBAI—In a nondescript office located in the heart of a Muslim neighborhood in south Mumbai, lawyer Nadeem Siddiqui examines the papers sprawled on his desk. A flyer on one of ...

As the northern Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir heads to the polls for its first regional-level elections in nearly a decade, voters and candidates alike are still feeling the ...

Bangladeshis made history in July when a mass uprising, led by student protesters, toppled Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League’s government, which had become increasingly dictatorial over the course of ...

Este domingo, el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, promulgó una serie de enmiendas constitucionales polémicas para reformar el poder judicial del país. La propuesta clave: elegir a todos ...

On Sunday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed into law a contentious slate of constitutional amendments aimed at overhauling the country’s judiciary. The key proposal: to elect all judges ...