by Lionel Laurent The author Stefan Zweig once wrote that European politics has for centuries been a struggle between two schools of leadership: The common good espoused […]
Tag: global politics
Feb. 4 letters to the editor
Watchful eyes on worldwide elections The world is going to witness elections on a mass scale. Half the world’s population — about 4 billion people from more […]
If Prigozhin is gone, long live Putin?
by Andreas Kluth Yevgeny Prigozhin might have retired in peace someday. Or he could have been found writhing in the throes of Novichok, a nerve agent favored […]
Turkey’s Erdogan is poised for a third decade in power
by Bobby Ghosh Looks like we’ll have Recep Tayyip Erdogan to kick us around for a while yet. Sunday’s election has produced a runoff between him and […]
Why does Mexico’s president want to dismantle the system that elected him?
by Andrés Martinez No president in modern Mexican history has enjoyed as much of a mandate as Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It is a shame he is […]
Prevent Putin from enabling the prison death of ill opposition leader
by Trudy Rubin Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won’t end until Vladimir Putin’s dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield. But that […]
Democracy is looking a little healthier
by Doyle McManus More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a “democratic recession.” Dozens of countries were drifting away from democracy […]
America needs to try harder to match its foreign policy to its morals
by Nicholas Goldberg I once went to the village of Koreme in Iraqi Kurdistan and walked along a dirt road past a little brick school and a […]
Sweden and Finland are right to give up neutrality
by Michael Miklaucic History is linear, yet it is punctuated by discontinuities. Things that seemed like fixtures in the firmament of the global order sometimes vanish overnight. […]
This could now be Weimar America
by Andreas Kluth Before we ponder the world’s biggest news this week, America’s surprisingly narrow midterm elections, let’s pay respect to Jair Bolsonaro. That’s because the Brazilian […]
