Authoritarianism has been on the march for years, but people powered revolutions are pushing regimes toward democracy on nearly every continent.
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COVID-19 is an early alert for more serious global crises. So far, the international community has failed — but it’s not too late to get it right.
Trump has put a stop to democracy promotion. Will democracy put a stop to Trump?
The IMF and the Bank would like the global South to believe that they are indispensable. They are not.
North Korea's nuclear program is a regional issue. It requires a regional response.
Dispossessed white men have haunted Western politics for generations. The answer isn’t to jettison “identity politics” — it’s to create truly meaningful new opportunities.
Even if Trump loses, his administration may have permanently damaged our standing abroad. But there's a silver lining: it makes Trumpism an ideological dead-end.
Trump is doing whatever he can to make it impossible for his successor to resolve some of the world’s most intractable problems.
With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over.
The alternative to Trump is not the glorification of military service. It's promoting the kind of service that gets fewer people killed.