Briefing Archive

Poles are growing impatient for PM Donald Tusk to repair the damage done by eight years under the conservative PiS party.

To win a war against Russia, Ukraine needs to reduce its reliance on foreign aid and build a stronger domestic defense industry.

The latest technical meetings in Bonn left an uncertain path to achieving climate goals at COP29 in Baku this November.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is playing nice with the EU, which is turning a blind eye to her far-right agenda at home.

President Javier Milei is leading an all-out attack on women’s rights and gender equality in Argentina. The country’s feminists are fighting back.

Many believe that a new coalition government will lead to change in South Africa. That hope ignores the scale of the country’s—and coalition’s—problems.

Constant turnover in President Kais Saied’s government points to a lack of solutions for Tunisia’s problems.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks a lot about women’s empowerment. His record in office is far from encouraging.

Judicial elections that were supposed to have been held last year are now the crux of a power struggle in Bolivia’s ruling party.

Politicization puts an end to Oregon and British Columbia’s short-lived experiments with drug decriminalization.

Palestinian civil society actors have been primary defenders of the international justice system. That system isn’t defending them back.

South Korea is making efforts to more actively engage with Africa and the Middle East. It’s part of Seoul’s broader geopolitical ambitions.

Reducing the gender gap in political leadership is a worthy goal. But we can’t assume that doing so will alone solve gender inequality.

The idea of reintroducing conscription is being met with opposition from virtually every corner—including the military establishment.

Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim has largely failed on both foreign and domestic policy, and these failures appear to be mutually reinforcing.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is determined to finalize Somalia’s provisional constitution. But rushing the process is creating problems.

Observers assume Maduro will try to stay in power at all costs if he loses. But that would be highly risky for him and his allies.