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Reuters Nicolas Maduro Doesn't Really Control Venezuela
And removing him from office won’t ease the country’s misery.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How to Be a Populist
Around the world, politicians can follow a simple recipe to present themselves as saviors of “the people.”
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Rick Wilking / Reuters How Democracies Lose in Cyberwar
In 2016, Russia used the American system against itself.
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Fernando Llano / AP Venezuela Is Falling Apart
Scenes from daily life in the failing state
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Reuters Old Diseases Made New
How globalization exacerbated the wildly different problems of Zika, ISIS, and Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Real Secret of Washington, D.C.
It’s not all about politics, and in fact it’s an extraordinary city.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters What Is Ideological Necrophilia?
From Mao to Trump, some leaders are blindly fixated on dead ideas.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters Can Putin Bomb His Way Out of Sanctions?
Europe is caught between Islamic terrorism and Russian imperialism. Which threat will it prioritize?
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Venezuela: A Dictatorship Masquerading as a Democracy
Ahead of a major election, the country is looking more and more like a failed state.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Struggle of Our Time: Human Nature vs. Mother Nature
Climate change is ever more destructive. Why aren’t we heeding nature’s warnings?
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Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters The World in Quotation Marks
From Russian “volunteers” in Syria to Chinese “islands” in the South China Sea, foreign affairs today is full of deception.
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Jorge Garcia / Reuters The Coming Turmoil in Latin America
What happens when the region’s new middle class discovers its progress isn’t permanent?
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John Taggart and Carlos Barria / Reuters What Pope Francis and Xi Jinping Have in Common
The Catholic and Chinese leaders face the same question: How do you lead a billion people in today’s world?
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Nancy Wiechec and Yannis Behrakis / Reuters The Charades of Donald Trump and Alexis Tsipras
The GOP candidate and Greek leader have undermined global debates about economics and immigration.
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Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters The Clash Within Civilizations
From ISIS to Dylann Roof, internal struggles are the dominant theme in conflict today.
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AP Why Cyber War Is Dangerous for Democracies
The most worrying form of government spying isn’t the kind Edward Snowden exposed.
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters What FIFA and the Berlin Philharmonic Reveal About Power
Sepp Blatter and other leaders fail to recognize that retaining authority nowadays requires revolutionary thinking.
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Petar Kujundzic / Reuters America’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
Political dysfunction is doing serious damage to U.S. economic power.
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Robert Kneschke/Shutterstock Economists Still Think Economics Is the Best
Despite failing to foresee the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, leaders in the field still fail to look for wisdom beyond its bounds.
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Fernando Sancho The Lagarde Consensus
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on the global economy's "new mediocre"—and why women are better leaders than men.
