You don’t say: Indonesia joins Asia’s digital censorship
As governments across South-East Asia crimp online freedoms, the region’s healthiest democracy might have been expected to resist the trend. Not so. President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua is using a new...
9 Kesä 202118min
Criminal proceedings: America’s spike in violence
Piecemeal criminal-justice reforms following last year’s protests are coming up against hard numbers: violent crime is up. We ask what can, and should, be done. The man who led a coup in Mali last yea...
8 Kesä 202123min
Ballots and bullets: Mexico’s elections
The run-up to the country’s largest-ever election has been bloody; the aftermath will set the tone for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose record so far is woeful. Our analysis of listed gree...
7 Kesä 202121min
Peace out: from bad to worse in Yemen
The Saudi-backed government is hobbled; separatism is spreading; a humanitarian crisis grows by the day. A rebel advance on a once-safe city will only prolong a grinding war. We look at the scourge of...
4 Kesä 202123min
Catch-up mustered: Europe’s vaccination drive
The bloc seems at last to have a firm hand on inoculation and recovery—but efforts to engineer even progress among member states are not quite panning out. In recent years Bangladesh’s government has ...
3 Kesä 202120min
Swiping rights: Republicans’ vote-crimping bids
A walkout in the Texas legislature is just the most dramatic of broad efforts to restrict voting rights—in particular of minority voters. We examine the risks to America’s democracy. Changes in climat...
2 Kesä 202119min
Bibi, it’s cold outside: Israel’s improbable coalition
The only thing that unites the parties of a would-be government is the will to oust Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. What chance their coalition can secure political stability? A new report reveals ...
1 Kesä 202120min
From the head down: rot in South Africa
Jacob Zuma, a former president, at last answers to decades-old corruption allegations. But graft still permeates his ANC party and government at every level. The pandemic’s hit to parents—particularly...
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