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Gabon's strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt.…
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Russian media outlets are holding up the Mueller report as another example of American dysfunction, with President Trump…
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is one of the very few GOP critics of President Trump's character and leadership. Why has he…
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Despite a repressive legal system that puts men in charge of female relatives, women in Saudi Arabia also attend school,…
Political leverage aside, it's a major source of water in a parched corner of the world that harbors significant oil…
The president and attorney general can try to keep the findings of Mueller's investigation secret. They'll likely…
Trust in the news media is low. One way to regain that trust is better transparency, media experts say. But what does transparency…
Research shows that unrest, even terrorism, can erupt in poor countries with a surplus of young people and not enough jobs.…
If Israel's longtime leader Benjamin Netanyahu loses in the upcoming elections, some hope that his removal will pave…
A law professor from the University of California, Hastings considers why a moratorium in California could be influential.
The recent massacre at a New Zealand mosque is a traceable, direct outgrowth of an American white nationalist movement that…
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