Monday Briefing|April 25
Presidential candidate Norbert Hofer arrives at the party headquarter of the Austrian Freedom party (FPO) in Vienna, Austria, April 24,...
Russia’s exit from Syria: Mission unaccomplished?
Picture by Maxim Shemetov | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on March 14 that he would begin to remove...
Jacob Zuma avoids impeachment, but is South Africa any closer to political stability?
Picture by Deaan Vivier | Gallo Images / Foto24 On Tuesday April 5, a motion to impeach the president of...
Monday Briefing|April 18
Photo by Dena Motevalian Stories to Follow Sanders’ political revolution fills Washington Square Park Less than a week before New...
Obligatory democracy is no democracy at all
Picture by Scott Gries | Getty Images. When asked to govern themselves, it appears most Americans would rather do other...
Russia’s NGO law leaves environmental activists in troubled waters
Lake Baikal. Picture by Bailey Wolff Jennie Sutton had nearly given up hope. Would Baikal Ecological Wave, the environmental nonprofit...
Monday Briefing|April 11
Sam Hodgson for the New York Times Stories to follow Sanders and Cruz win big Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz...
Trump’s Misguided Torture Plan
Picture by Scott Olsen | Getty Images “We can’t do waterboarding, and they can chop off our heads,” Republican presidential...
Monday Briefing | April 4
Sergei Roldugin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, then Russian president, tour the House of Music in St Petersburg in 2009....
Jeb Bush, Super PAC-Man
Picture by Gabriella Demczuk | The New York Times. It was an unbelievable, record-setting amount of money. In the first...