Hell no, we won’t grow: Indian farmers’ mass protests
Hundreds of thousands of farmers have participated in protests around Delhi, demonstrating against laws that they say threaten their livelihoods. We ask how the standoff will end. Today America will d...
19 Jan 202121min
Landed, in trouble: Alexei Navalny returns to Russia
The opposition leader was detained as soon as he arrived—but President Vladimir Putin has no good options for dealing with his most vocal opponent. Germany’s ruling CDU party has a new leader; we exam...
18 Jan 202120min
Bold Wine in new battles: Uganda’s election
After a violent campaign in which the opposition candidate Bobi Wine was extensively intimidated, authorities imposed an internet blackout. President Yoweri Museveni will almost certainly cling to pow...
15 Jan 202119min
Two-timer: Trump impeached, again
Some House Republicans broke ranks, joining Democrats to hand President Donald Trump an ignominious distinction. Our deputy editor lays out why the Senate should now convict and remove him. Under Sout...
14 Jan 202120min
Trial ensnarer: human-rights law’s new tool
War criminals and their ilk often evade justice solely because of squabbling over who can be tried where. But a rise in “universal jurisdiction” trials is tightening the net. Recent lockdowns’ hits to...
13 Jan 202120min
You don’t say: tech’s Trump bans
Moves to shutter the president’s accounts and to crimp corners of the internet given to right-wing extremism raise thorny questions, both about free speech and social-media firms’ business models. Our...
12 Jan 202122min
Wrest wing: the bid to oust Trump
Today Democratic lawmakers will begin attempts to remove President Donald Trump. It could fail, or be delayed—or Republicans could see a political opportunity. Even amid a global vaccination drive, th...
11 Jan 202121min
The longer arm of the law: Hong Kong
A national-security law imposed by Beijing had not, until this week, bared its teeth; the arrests of dozens of pro-democracy figures reveals how much it can crimp opposition. At the American Economics...
8 Jan 202123min
