Protest vote: Hong Kongers send a message to Beijing
After almost six months of protests and street battles, Hong Kongers have had a chance to vote in local elections. They sent a clear message of support to those agitating for greater democracy. We loo...
25 Nov 201922min
Bibi in the corner: Binyamin Netanyahu’s indictment
After years of investigations, Israel’s prime minister has been indicted. A fraught legal case will complicate the already messy business of cobbling together a government. We examine the work of a pi...
22 Nov 201921min
Fuel to the fire: growing unrest in Iran
After petrol subsidies were slashed, protests of surprising ferocity have flared up across the country—and neither the government nor the demonstrators seem to be backing down. The illicit trade in rh...
21 Nov 201920min
Settling in: Israel-Palestine policy
The American administration’s shifting position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank will have little immediate effect—but may end up sharply crimping hopes for a Palestinian state. The first debat...
20 Nov 201921min
Bits in pieces: a fragmenting internet
The early vision for a borderless, unregulated internet has not panned out as its pioneers hoped. How to handle the “splinternet”? Doug Jones is Alabama’s first Democratic senator in a quarter of a ce...
19 Nov 201922min
Head for the Hill: this week’s impeachment hearings
Democrats have a hard task as the hearings’ public stage proceeds: not uncovering new evidence, but building a robust public case for impeachment. The online-grocery business is tough—but that isn’t s...
18 Nov 201921min
Better the devil they know? Sri Lanka’s election
After multiple suicide bombings in April, much campaigning has been about security. Will Sri Lankans vote tomorrow for the authoritarian-but-effective candidate, or the more untested peacemaker? We ex...
15 Nov 201921min
Language barrier: Cameroon’s forgotten conflict
There is widespread terror in the largely Francophone country’s English-speaking region. Both hardline separatists and the army target civilians with shocking brutality. In a Central Asian valley, a t...
14 Nov 201922min
