MOMENTOUS political events have been occurring in the region — Afghan­is­tan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sy­­ria. Much ...

On Monday, in the Capitol Rotunda, tech billionaire Elon Musk threw what appeared to be a Nazi salute during the inauguration ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

My sense of who I am, my identity, has always been that I am part of a democracy where my vote and my voice count. That is ...

The Orbán government and the “postliberal” philosophies promoted by leading Hungarian conservatives have considerable ...

When you’re raised in an authoritarian Christian community you can never quite comfortably fit into, you learn early on about the ambiguity of language. Words like “love,” for example, mean very ...

In the 2020 presidential election, Lukashenko claimed an 80% victory, leading to accusations of fraud, widespread protests, and a brutal crackdown that saw thousands arrested ...

Donald Trump is president again. Four years after his first term ended in an unprecedented spasm of lies, criminality and ...

This is the easiest way to unravel a constitutional democracy: You turn democracy against the constitution, by claiming that ...

Speaking of small, characterless, fearful men, let’s talk about Idaho Sen. James Risch. The criminal who used a Taser on ...