Category: Politics

For the moment, there may be an opportunity for Bangladesh to have fresh voices and faces in politics emerging from the student movement.

Arifa Noor at Dawn: As a journalist who has been slogging at it for decades, the talent and creativity of those who are using social media never ceases to amaze me.

From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political…

It’s now been more than 200 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her.

Populism, the rule of many, and authoritarianism, the rule of one, might seem like antipoles. But they are intimately related. Wherever populism appears, so do various forms of…

Just as the Arab Spring soon became what Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman called an Arab Winter, Bangladesh’s democratic renewal could be smothered in its crib.

Central to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was a rivalry to develop the technologies of the future.

Historian Richard J. Evans discusses his new book with Jim Kelly, explaining why top Nazis came from the middle class, whether a new Hitler is possible, and his love for Babylon Berlin

At its heart, this crisis is about trust. As the political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued, “Belief in the corruptibility of all institutions leads to the dead end of universal distrust.

It has become fashionable to invoke Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” to justify restrictions on free speech. That’s just plain wrong…

Moscow’s elite ‘illegal’ sleeper agents pose as foreigners and live under false identities known as ‘legends,’ often for decades

Rahul Bhatia in The Guardian: Running a finger over a row of books in a…