I grew up watching democracy in Nicaragua slowly disintegrate, one small step after another. Now here, in the land of the ...

Lawyers, law students and other fans of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson erupted in cheers and a standing ovation — eagerly snapping far-off, hazy cell phone photographs during the ...

We speak with United Nations expert Francesca Albanese, one day after the Trump administration announced it is imposing ...

The only gap left in the market, and it is a limited one, is for Reaganism — that is, for lower spending, limited government, and strict constitutionalism.

Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...

The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the ...

Applebaum: About older American traditions of state capture. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions. He packed the courts. And, once you have the courts and the legislature—and ...

No State Department official publicly said when the first notices for the planned layoffs would be sent, but the widespread ...

The new leadership at the U.S. Department of State is moving full speed ahead on its mission to "rightsize" and reshape the ...

Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s latest documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the impact of evangelical Christianity on Brazil’s political landscape. Once a small minority, evangelicals ...

Fifteen Michigan Republicans accused of trying to help overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss still don’t know whether ...