Can the “bernie sanders of south korea” heal his nation?

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

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

The dots appear to contradict one another, puzzling observers. How to connect them? Inflation over the last five years has been double the Federal Reserve’s target. Why then, does it cut its key lendi

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.

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

At private dinners with family and confidants, the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, often speaks admiringly of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, say