An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.

A British national overseas has been handed a death penalty in all but name. Being seen by a foreign autocrat as weak in the protection of your citizens won’t earn you his grati ...

Samantha Power, a former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), says autocratic regimes ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

The Trump administration has frozen nearly all foreign funding under the State Department, a move that Australia Strategic Policy Institute's China investigations and analysis head Bethany Allen says ...

When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

Part 1 in this three-part series discussed some of the competitive and national-security ramifications of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) innovator DeepSeek launching its powerful new R1 ...

Many leaders cling to outdated styles that stifle success. Learn why autocratic and laissez-faire leadership fail and how to ...

A judge in Tunisia handed down lengthy sentences to prominent politicians and at least one leading journalist in a move seen as targeting critics of autocratic strongman Kais Saied. Offering context ...

This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982.

All of the current office holders for McLeod County who signed letters of support of the “Big Lie.” Those current office holders violated the oath they took when elected to defend the Constitution ...