Pirates — those ancient swashbucklers or their contemporary illegal-downloading counterparts — seldom conjure images of political savvy...

Help wanted: Facebook is seeking a Head of Public Policy in Bangkok, Thailand. Responsibilities include monitoring Thai politics, working...

The first round of elections for the Majlis, Iran’s national parliament, changed the dynamic for political reformists throughout the...

Earlier this year, the world watched in consternation as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly autocratic regime closed...

In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the...

While the Arab Spring uprisings ignited simmering discontent across many nations in the Middle East, Western media was quick to celebrate...

Politics, it has long been said, is sports for nerds. Debates and primaries are the big games, with political junkies quick to look up...

Côte d’Ivoire’s fraught history provides a crucial frame for Ouattara’s rise to power. Under the 33-year rule of President Felix...

The community members of Villa Soldati, a slum on the southwest end of Buenos Aires’ sprawling outskirts, are stuck between a rock and a...

On September 17, New York Times columnist Charles Blow addressed a full crowd at Brown in a colloquium titled “The New Civil Rights...

Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author or editor of more than 20 books,...

Thomas Tisch ’76 is the Chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University and a partner at Four Partners, a private investment firm in...

Last month, Maldivian ex-President Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years prison under charges of “terrorism.” More specifically, the...

The government exists to plan for the future, but what do you do if your future no longer wants you? This is the existential crisis...

Burma may be small, but it has withstood the longest ongoing civil war in the history of the modern world. Since its independence from...

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In 2013, 400 million Indian citizens lived on less than $1.15 per day, while half did not have access to adequate sanitation. Despite...

For the past week, Hong Kong has been the center of the biggest challenge against the Chinese central government since the Tiananmen...

Nine days after the publication of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in 1988, India banned the importation and sale of the book. Four...

Almost every time a new leader is appointed in an authoritarian state, the question arises: will they represent change or a continuation...