Dispatches

"There was nothing ignoble about Trump’s defeat — at least, not initially"

Politics is much like marketing: the clearer the message, the more likely the sale. Based on the opening of the (virtually held) Democratic National Convention, the presidential campaign of the former vice

Republicans exploited historical ignorance to kill impeachment

Justin Trudeau has been exposed as one of the weakest and most ineffective leaders his country has ever known

Islamist terror attacks in Colombo revealed government incompetence

President Ramaphosa has won the election but his position is fragile: South Africa faces poverty, inequality and corruption almost entirely self-inflicted by the ruling ANC

While India remains, formally at least, a secular republic, the last few years have seen that ideal become increasingly far from reality

"The first unusual characteristic was that Hof was a self-described pimp, the owner of several brothels in rural Nevada. The second was that, by the time election day came around, Hof was

"On one side is a government with a history of military overreach and ethnic cleansing. On the other is Chile’s poorest and most disenfranchised group rising up after centuries of mistreatment"