Elections

Votes Versus Rights

The debate that's shaping the outcome of the Arab Spring.

BY CHARLES KURZMAN | FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Upping the Ante

With 100,000 protesters -- young, old, and everything in between -- out in the freezing streets of Moscow, the heat is being turned up on Vladimir Putin's drive for the presidency.

BY JULIA IOFFE | FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Premature Evacuation?

Why cutting and running in Afghanistan is good politics for Obama.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Ultra Violence

How Egypt’s soccer mobs are threatening the revolution.

BY JAMES M. DORSEY | FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The Georgian Paradox

As Georgia's recent experience demonstrates, fighting corruption and building democracy are two different things.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 31, 2012

The Pop Star and the President

Will West Africa's biggest music star and Senegal's octogenarian president-for-life learn to sing along -- or is the country on the edge of discord?

BY TIM JUDAH | JANUARY 31, 2012

The Lesson of Bani Walid

In post-Gaddafi Libya, the dream of a stable central government is fading. Militias are filling the gap.

BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | JANUARY 28, 2012

The Battle for Bihar

Sleaze still plagues India. But one place is fighting back.

BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | JANUARY 25, 2012

Making Up Is Hard to Do

As the Arab Spring countries are about to learn, reconciliation is hard, grinding work.

BY CHARLES VILLA-VICENCIO | JANUARY 17, 2012

From Paris with Love

Dear Mitt: What's this European socialist nightmare you're so afraid of? Trust me, la belle vie ain't that bad.

BY ERIC PAPE | JANUARY 13, 2012

¿El Presidente?

Mitt Romney could be the first Latino president. So why is he blowing it?

BY LARRY KAPLOW | JANUARY 11, 2012

The Beards of January

Even Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is nervous about the rise of the Salafis.

JANUARY 4, 2012

It's Not Just Obama

Twenty elections that could change the world in 2012.

BY LOIS PARSHLEY, URI FRIEDMAN | DECEMBER 30, 2011

Occupy Everywhere

In this year of protests, is it really fair to compare the grievances of the Occupy movement to the courage of the Arab Spring?

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 30, 2011

The (B)end of History

Francis Fukuyama was wrong, and 2011 proves it.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | DECEMBER 27, 2011

The World According to Ron Paul

Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

What should America do about the Arab Spring? Not much.

BY F. GREGORY GAUSE III | DECEMBER 21, 2011

The Botched Ballot

Why even failed elections are good for democracy.

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Condomnation of Vladimir Putin

Russia’s embattled ruler meets his public.

BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 16, 2011

A Crisis in the Congo

Why is the West so willing to look the other way when it comes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's clearly flawed election results?

BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | DECEMBER 14, 2011

A Tale of Two Candidates

The Gingrich–Huntsman debate illustrated, sadly, what GOP voters are looking for in a presidential candidate.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 13, 2011

Looking Back at the Arab Spring

From Tunisia to Tahrir Square, the pictures that defined a movement.

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The Decembrists

No one's quite sure what's going on in the streets of Moscow -- or what to call it -- but it's growing and powerful ... and could all end badly.

BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 9, 2011

Now Hear This, Moscow

It’s time for President Obama to talk tough about Russia’s rigged parliamentary elections.

BY DAVID J. KRAMER | DECEMBER 8, 2011

The Anti-Putin Brigade

Portraits of Russia's would-be revolutionaries -- and their intimate thoughts on Vladimir Putin and the country's dark political future.

PHOTOS BY KIRILL NIKITENKO | DECEMBER 5, 2011

When Democrats Became Doves

With the GOP candidates eager to call Obama weak-willed on foreign policy, it's worth looking at how Democrats got stuck with this tag.

BY MICHAEL COHEN | DECEMBER 2, 2011

Ready for Their Close-Up

The votes are in, and Islamist parties are ascendant throughout the Arab world. But can they rule?

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 2, 2011

Realpolitik and the Myanmar Spring

Wondering why Hillary Clinton is in Myanmar right now? Hint: it's all about China.

BY BERTIL LINTNER | NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Ballot Gone Bad

Liberia's peaceful election has descended into chaos, conspiracy, and violence.

BY F. CHARLES YOUNG | NOVEMBER 8, 2011

20 Things the G-20 Could Have Done -- But Didn't

As the Cannes caucus begins, here's what would have saved the world economy -- and Barack Obama's job.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | NOVEMBER 2, 2011