Brazil held a presidential election a couple weeks ago. Here’s how The Wall Street Journal reported the result: “Brazilians elected Luiz ‘Lula’ da Silva to the presidency […]
Tag: global politics
Can’t Truss it: Toodle-oo to a prime minister we barely got to know
Short-lived governments are routine in some democracies, with uncertainty the norm and predictability ever elusive. Yet never in London, where hundreds of years of steady parliamentary rule […]
Meloni’s influence greater in Europe
by Rachel Sanderson Giorgia Meloni’s triumph as the first woman to lead a winning party in the macho world of Italian politics is not a moment to […]
Tunisia’s democracy is collapsing. Biden shouldn’t just stand by
by Bobby Ghosh On the day Tunisia’s democracy died, it fell to a State Department spokesperson to deliver the Biden administration’s mealy-mouthed pieties. Asked about the July […]
Here’s the real problem with Joe Biden’s reversal on Saudi Arabia
by Bonnie Kristian President Joe Biden took a defensive tone in the run-up to his visit to Saudi Arabia last Friday. “I have never been quiet about […]
Watching Sri Lanka’s democracy teeter amid popular uprisings
by Michael Paramathasan A popular revolution is unfolding in Sri Lanka, with the fall of one of Asia’s most powerful political dynasties amid hunger, heartbreak and the […]
Lies finally end Johnson’s run
In the end, it wasn’t one scandal that brought down Boris Johnson. It was a series. While each transgression was unique, they shared this truth: The British […]
French election has global stakes
At his victory celebration in 2017, newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron strode to a podium at the Louvre to the sounds of “Ode to Joy.” He […]
