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Prabowo Subianto, like his Chinese hero, is taking power in his 70s
WATCHING THE RECENT SPECTACLE OF THOSE latter-day emperors President Xi of China and India’s Narendra Modi hugging each other at the summit in Tianjin, my mind cast back to an earlier image of a pan-A
IT WAS NOT HOW LEE JAE-MYUNG ENVISIONED HIS FIRST DAY ON THE job. Following his election as South Korea’s President on June 3, Lee’s staff arrived at their new offices in central Seoul the next mornin
A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
Passing sentence in Brazil: the jailing of a ...
Imagine a country where a hard-right populist president loses an election, urges followers on social media to rise up and storm government buildings, and is eventually handed a 27-year sentence for st
When 18-year-old Bernie Sanders enrolled as a freshman at Brooklyn College in 1959, the two-storey, 2,400-seat art deco theatre on campus was called the Walt Whitman Auditorium. It had opened four yea
