Recent events in the South Caucasus show how the authoritarian playbook is exported and adapted to suit local contexts. From ...

Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to ...

When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe with Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Sir John Monash Centre on opening day. Photo by Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images. The Prince of Wales at the ...

Besmir Billa playing a traditional Albanian instrument, called the cifteli, in Kukes. All the while, there is a parallel reality playing out far from home, one that the people of Kukes see in glimpses ...

ICMPD provided Moroccan authorities with technical surveillance systems from two companies, MSAB and Oxygen Forensics, as well as training on how to use the systems. Financed by the EU’s “Border ...

The silhouettes moved so quickly they blurred out of focus in seconds. Squinting, I could barely make them out from where I sat, in a border patrol truck in Nogales, Arizona, overlooking a stretch of ...

Your Early Warning System This story is part of “The Playbook,” our special issue in which Coda acts as your early warning system for democracy. For seven years, we’ve tracked how freedoms erode ...

In a recent email Parker sent in response to questions for this article, he told me that, so far, fewer than 100 people had taken the Lightning Process course for long Covid. “The anecdotal results ...