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Upcoming elections in the U.S., France and Iran all present worrisome prospects on the horizon for global politics.

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

With a consolidation of competing alliance blocs, the world is entering a perilous time. It may only get worse.

A top Bolivian general attempted a coup, both a reassuring sign for the country’s democracy and a reminder of the challenges it continues to face.

The next U.K. government will have to decide how much to invest in multilateralism, at a time when international tensions buffet the U.N. system.

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

Protests that gripped Kenya’s capital yesterday are ostensibly about a tax bill, but in reality the roots of the grievances run much deeper.

Brexit alone doesn’t explain the Conservative Party’s widely anticipated defeat in Britain’s upcoming elections.

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

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, agreed to plead guilty in a U.S. case against him, ending a yearslong legal battle that raised concerns about the sanctity of press freedoms.

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 Xi Jinping is doubling down on China’s manufacturing capacity to enhance its global power, at the expense of needed reforms.

Decisionmakers in the Global North now see climate action as a political and economic opportunity, rather than a necessary sacrifice.

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.

The only other regional leader Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa praises is on the opposite side of the political spectrum. That’s very telling.

The Taliban will attend a U.N.-hosted conference on Afghanistan, a controversial invitation vocally criticized by Afghan women’s right activists.

The consensus that the U.S. is engaged in a strategic competition with China masks a deeper debate that is set to last.