On July 9, 2022, more than 100,000 Sri Lankan protesters stormed the residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, forcing the president to...

On September 14, nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants were flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard without their full consent in a move...

In the 2017 German national elections, the populist radical-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party won 13 percent of seats in the...

As the popularity of right-wing populist parties has soared in recent years, Ireland contrasts in exhibiting a notable dearth of such a...

Freedom House, a nonpartisan watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and documenting the progress of democracy,...

On September 23, standing in front of a banner declaring, “Ahead for a New Front,” French presidential runner-up Marine Le Pen announced...

On May 7, 2017, the independent candidate Emmanuel Macron defeated the far right candidate Marine Le Pen to become the next president of...

The gap between the wealthy and poor in the United States is disturbingly greater than most of its residents realize. The Walmart family...

On December 19, 2016 Christine Lagarde, the managing director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was convicted in French...

In the late 19th century, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria oversaw a period of unprecedented intellectual and cultural growth in the...

Over the last few years, extremist and populist movements have been on the rise throughout the world. Be it the Brexit referendum or...

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

On October 30, as the leaders of the European Union and Canada met to sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA),...

Over the course of the last few months, the entire world has waited with bated breath for the results of the US elections. As a result,...

In many ways, the political landscape in Eastern Europe is still getting its bearings after the fall of Warsaw-pact regimes in 1989-91....

Since first being elected in 2005, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s famously football-loving president, has been scoring goal after goal. Morales’...

Last summer, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wrote an opinion piece in the Boston Globe entitled “The War on the Middle Class.” He...

While much hay has been made over 2015’s assortment of political upsets, one of the most interesting applecarts to be overturned has...

The figure of the political outsider has never been hotter in American politics, a trend that predictably corresponds with the longest...

Although they forced the government into a partial shutdown, Tea Partiers still failed to strip the Affordable Care Act of funding – not...