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IT IS HARD to see past the human tragedy of the war in Sudan. Perhaps 150,000 people have died since fighting began last year and more than 10m have fled [...]

For over a century, people around the world have lived through an American era: a period dominated by U.S. power, wealth, institutions, ideas, alliances, and partnerships. But many now believe [...]

One day in late March, People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, shared a pair of photos on Chinese social media. The first, in black and white, was of [...]

ON JAN. 19, RAHUL GANDHI, the 42-year-old heir apparent of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty, the family that has ruled India for 37 of the 66 years since India gained independence, was [...]

What will follow one of Africa's most successful strongmen? THE death of Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's prime minister, on August 20th reveals much about the country he created. Details of his [...]

Beneath the chaos lies a complex power struggle between generals and Islamists. The West should back the latter A YEAR and a half after the optimism of the Arab spring, [...]

Byline: Ronald Brownstein The Supreme Court's oral arguments on health care last week offered a nightmare preview of what could await Washington after the 2012 election: a political system that [...]

Despite its suspicions, the West should engage the moderate Islamist parties that win elections WHEN revolutionaries first stormed public squares in north Africa a year ago and toppled ageing dictators, [...]

Byline: Jorge Castaneda Latin populists are surging again. Obviously the U.S. midterm elections stole most people's attention last week, but several important events in Latin America may have consequences almost [...]

The twenty-first century began with a very unequal distribution of power resources. With five percent of the world's population, the United States accounted for about a quarter of the world's [...]

The president is widowed, politically as well as personally. What happens now? TWICE this year, the second time less than seven weeks ago, Néstor Kirchner had been rushed to hospital [...]

Byline: Matthew Philips Forecasting is a fancy word for trying to predict the future, and it is, to put it mildly, an inexact science. But George Friedman, a political scientist [...]

Charles Bullock, a political science professor at The University of Georgia, believes that the political power in Georgia's General Assembly will favor metro Atlanta. Bullock points that population losses in North and South Georgia, along with the projected growth of Atlanta, shifts the power to Atlanta. Other views and information on politics in Georgia are presented.

In the United Kingdom, the first-past-the-post system may have delivered strong majorities in the 1950s, when 97 per cent of those who voted did so for one of the two [...]