The Bertelsmann Stiftung's new transformation index says that the world is becoming increasingly autocratic and existing autocracies are becoming more entrenched. One of the few counter-examples: ...

There is growing frustration among Republicans over the Trump administration's justification for the war with Iran after a classified briefing yesterday. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Ranking Member of the ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s recent “explosion of the ego” and tendency ...

In November 2024 a canopy on a Serbian railway station collapsed, killing 16 people. The most likely cause of the shoddy workmanship was corruption. Huge protests erupted, and independent journalists ...

There have been a number of letters from supporters of President Donald Trump criticizing comparisons of Trump to Adolf Hitler. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United ...

In Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, under the sharp, thin air of the Swiss Alps, we witnessed what may be the final curtain call for the post-1945 international order. President Donald Trump, flanked ...

Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The ...

Where are these autocratic ideas coming from? Better yet, who is pushing these ideas? President Trump leans toward being a “global dominator” with his administration’s policies. It’s interesting as to ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gears up to hear arguments in a crucial case over the independence of the Federal Reserve, Trump v. Cook. But it won’t even be the first make-or-break moment the ...

Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Venezuela attack represents the clearest example during Trump’s second presidency ...