The U.S. Senate has had to make room on its schedule for consideration of the “Breaking Russia’s Energy Addicted Kleptocracy and Punishing Uncivil Tyrant Invading Neighbor Act,” reports suggest…. Read more »
Authoritarian regimes create incentives for officials to shelter leaders from the truth, especially bad news, as we can see in Russia, said Celeste Wallander, assistant secretary of defense for international… Read more »
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and… Read more »
This off-ramp won’t stay open for long. https://t.co/phx6ay4l9I — Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) October 3, 2022 Three determining factors will play an outsized role in Ukraine’s future: support from America and European… Read more »
“The odds look substantially bleaker for Brazilian democracy right now than they did 24 hours ago,” one expert said after left-wing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took 48.4… Read more »
At least 31 civilians have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police,… Read more »
As a lead member of a band of legal activists, Ding Jiaxi, formerly a successful corporate attorney, was practicing a perilous vocation: human rights law in China. Waging a longshot… Read more »
Шествие в Москве против войны. Храбрые, лучшие! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/njAHbSAiOp — Соболь Любовь (@SobolLubov) September 21, 2022 Russia’s opposition on Wednesday called for protests against President Vladimir Putin after he ordered… Read more »
An assassination attempt in Argentina and spurts of election-linked violence in Brazil have emerged as the latest signs of growing political discontent in Latin America, creating a treacherous environment for… Read more »
For all of the rhetoric about democracies versus autocracies being the defining challenge of our times, if democracies are in trouble, autocracies may be the least of their problems, a… Read more »