The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for ...

The future of the US Agency for International Development, or USAid, is looking increasingly bleak amid shutdown threats from ...

Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated and ...

Mark Hudson talks to China’s most provocative exile about his new exhibition, the triple standards of the West, the crisis of ...

Abdi said the Kurds of Syria do not want to break away from the country or set up their own autonomous government and ...

There was a time—was there not?—when the Left stood for something. A time when the so-called progressives, the self-anointed ...

Trump’s January 25th statement on relocating 1.5 million Gazans to Egypt and Jordan may be the smartest chess move in this ...

Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South.

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

President Donald Trump returned to the White House, facing a world that is arguably more complicated than when he left the building four years earlier. The war in ...

I write to oppose the anti-Israel non-binding referendum on the Vergennes Town Meeting Day ballot. Israel is a vibrant democracy. Palestinian Israelis vote alongside Jewish Israelis in all elections.