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Byline: Max Fisher In parliamentary systems like New Zealand's, it is the norm for leaders to step down when doing so may serve their party's electoral prospects. In other political [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Even though it creates misery and loss, the methodical bombing of civilian centers has more often been shown to rally support for resistance. President Vladimir V. Putin [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Mass protests, once a grave threat to even the fiercest autocrat, have plummeted in effectiveness, a study shows. Factors appear to include polarization, social media and rising [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Former colonies have felt increasingly empowered to demand compensation from European powers. But even the successful efforts look like exceptions so far. What do former colonial powers [...]

Byline: Max Fisher By most measures - with one glaring exception - people around the world are better off than ever. So why doesn't it feel that way, especially to [...]

Byline: Max Fisher A crude weapon. Minimal security. One death. A closer look at the details of the assassination of Shinzo Abe may actually underscore the effectiveness of Japan's restrictions. [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway: All had a culture of gun ownership, and all tightened restrictions anyway. Their violence statistics now diverge sharply from those of [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Arconic runs a huge Russian metal plant, bought in an era of cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. Now it is struggling, after years of increasing Russian [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Britain's new plan to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda exposes the fragile nature of the global refugee compact, which has always fallen prey to domestic [...]

Byline: Max Fisher If those in power act as if they are immune to the laws of war, it may be because they often are. But following through is not [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Its experience in a string of wars led to the conclusion that attacking civilian populations was not only acceptable but militarily sound. As Russian artillery and rockets [...]

Byline: Max Fisher A series of shifts in Russian statements about using nuclear weapons has led some analysts to believe that the Kremlin sees a nuclear exchange as a viable [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Which side can maintain domestic support as the war costs regular citizens could also determine the outcome in Ukraine. As Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds on, Moscow [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Each side is trying to convince the other that the price of conflict is too high. It is a complex game played with deliberate ambiguity, raising the [...]

Byline: Max Fisher The country's political system has made it hard for fringe groups to gain influence. But a new cause, and fund-raising across borders, could begin to fuel Canadian [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Since paying the price for annexing Crimea in 2014, Russia has tried to make its economy sanctions-proof, hoarding currency to insulate the country. Vladimir V. Putin's posture [...]

Byline: Max Fisher After years of trying to diplomatically divide and conquer, the Russian leader has seemingly decided to antagonize Europe as a whole in the current Ukraine crisis. For [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Moral hypocrisy, such as lying about parties held during Britain's lockdown, is the ultimate sin in human society, with a special power to enrage. Boris Johnson, long [...]

Byline: Max Fisher The Russian leader is fighting fires on multiple fronts, illustrating the danger of his strategy of relying on force to aid his autocratic neighbors. From Eastern Europe [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Since the Cold War's end, most dictatorial governments have collapsed after their ruler's departure. Kazakhstan's explosion into unrest this week presents a stark warning to the strongman [...]

Byline: Lynsey Chutel and Max Fisher Vaccines are finally available in many African countries, but an underfunded public health system has slowed their delivery, and some people there, as well [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Washington-aligned countries backslid at nearly double the rate of non-allies, data shows, complicating long-held assumptions about American influence. The United States and its allies accounted for a [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Though often seen as vanity or pique, France's assertiveness abroad is calibrated to manage a quandary it has faced since World War II: how to act as [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Its longtime enemy now a fact of life, Washington must choose when to shun or tolerate the group, with all the wrenching trade-offs each policy choice brings. [...]

Byline: Max Fisher The group's head-spinning claims of moderation follow a common playbook for rebel-held governments, with mixed lessons for Afghanistan's future. The Taliban may occupy Afghanistan's border crossings and [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Once imagined as a new kind of warfare, government-linked hacking has instead become a widespread and perhaps permanent feature of the global order. The world woke up [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Time and again, the world has found that propping up failing states is compelling in the short term and potentially disastrous in the long term. Barely a [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Governments rooted in revolution like Tehran's have proved to be among the world's most stable, even drawing strength from crises. Since Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar was a child, [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Fifty years of patient advocacy, including the shocking discovery of mass graves at Kamloops, have secured once-unthinkable gains. When an Indigenous community in Canada announced recently that [...]

Byline: Max Fisher For émigrés and exiles, pressure on families back home, social media intimidation, even kidnapping, have become a regular part of life. Tahir Imin knew that romances sometimes [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Israel has quietly sought, and perhaps achieved, a large measure of autonomy from its half-century of reliance on the United States. Israel, a small country surrounded by [...]

Byline: Max Fisher The town of Lydda posed an early test of how the Israeli state would treat Palestinians. It is a legacy playing out today in violence between Jews [...]

Byline: Max Fisher How a series of fateful choices and lofty ambitions put Taliban defeat at odds with American victory. It took barely two months after the U.S. invasion of [...]

Byline: Max Fisher A world divided between the vaccinated and unvaccinated promises relief for economies and families, but the ethical and practical risks are high. The next major flash point [...]

Byline: Max Fisher and Choe Sang-Hun The country showed that it is possible to contain the coronavirus without shutting down the economy, but experts are unsure whether its lessons can [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Psychologists say that differing responses to coronavirus and the flu illustrate our shortcomings when it comes to evaluating danger. Shortly after the University of Washington announced that [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Which country is ahead after almost two years of brinkmanship? Neither, the evidence strongly suggests. After pulling back from the brink of war, leaders in the United [...]

Byline: Max Fisher and Amanda Taub Allegations that killing Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani crossed a line draw on two definitions of the term - one legal, one colloquial - whose [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Friend and foe alike are left puzzled over what President Trump aimed to achieve by killing a top Iranian general, what he might do next or how [...]

Byline: Max Fisher The Cold War binary of 'bad' coups and 'good' popular revolts no longer applies. But the labels persist, with important consequences. President Evo Morales's resignation has provoked [...]

Byline: Max Fisher Presidents are increasingly asking militaries to bail them out of crises, surfacing painful memories in a region where many grew up under military rule. An old but [...]

Byline: Declan Walsh and Max Fisher Pocketbook items have become the catalysts for popular fury across the globe in recent weeks. LONDON - In Chile, the spark was an increase [...]

Byline: Max Fisher The violence precipitated by the American withdrawal is an outcome of tensions that have been building since the conflict began more than eight years ago. To understand [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold, Amanda Taub and Max Fisher FRANKENSTEIN, Germany - They called it the Frankenstein coalition, and not just for the location. When the Frankenstein chapter of Chancellor Angela [...]

Byline: Amanda Taub and Max Fisher Chhaya Chhoum's journey to the Bronx began in the forced labor camp where the Khmer Rouge, during its genocidal rule in 1970s Cambodia, had [...]

Byline: Max Fisher As fires rage across the Amazon, a growing number of scientists are raising the alarm about a nightmare scenario that could see much of the world's largest [...]

Byline: Max Fisher LONDON - In his first days as Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson has attempted some of the most tried-and-true tactics of the populist era. He sought a [...]

Byline: Max Fisher and Amanda Taub NITERÈôI, Brazil - When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a video that changed his life. He was in a band in Niterói, a [...]

Byline: Max Fisher and Amanda Taub President Trump's approach to migration, which has reshaped American border enforcement with its 'zero tolerance' policy, follows a model pioneered by the European Union [...]

Byline: Amanda Taub and Max Fisher It seems that 2019 might be the year of the protest. In Prague last week, Czechs gathered in the largest demonstration since the fall [...]