A decisive year for democracy worldwide

AFTER A YEAR IN THE POLITICAL WILDER-ness, Democrats rode frustration over high prices and President Donald Trump’s disruptive economic policies to win a raft of elections across the country on Nov. 4

After World War II, America and its allies put in place a set of alliances, institutions and power structures to rebuild war-ravaged countries, create geopolitical stability and generate global econom

The US Constitution as a straitjacket

When General Francisco Franco died on 20 November 1975 – 39 years after the start of the brutal civil war that brought him to power – the prospect of a bloodless transition to democracy in Spain appea

NEWS, OPINION + ANALYSIS

During a highly charged presidential campaign, a bomb explodes, unleashing panic and a wave of recriminations. Then a Chinese Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft vanishes in Taiwan’s eastern waters. Under the