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Fernando Llano / AP Why Nicolás Maduro Clings to Power
Even as crisis consumes him, the president of Venezuela knows he has no alternative but to remain entrenched in Caracas.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Honest Politicians Won't Fix Corruption
Around the world, people are fed up with venal politicians. But they may be looking for the wrong solution.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters The Uprising of the Global Middle Class
Economic progress and increased prosperity do not always buy more political stability.
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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.
