Thailand: The Permanent Coup
For decades Thailand has striven to become a pro-Western democracy, but a military junta that grabbed power three years ago is now taking the country in a different direction.
For decades Thailand has striven to become a pro-Western democracy, but a military junta that grabbed power three years ago is now taking the country in a different direction.
Since her husband, the Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che, was arrested in China, Lee Ching-yu has been at the center of an uphill struggle even to learn where he is, much less get him released.
How the Philippines is functioning under the reign of Rodrigo Duterte.
Nearly 6,000 drug dealers and users in the Philippines have been summarily executed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in June.
Put your butcher's sword down! Latest in my series of Q&As with leading Chinese thinkers about China's past, present and future. I traveled to rural China with Tan to look at the scene of a genocide.
Ian Johnson goes to a remote Chinese province to write about an unknown case of genocide in the Cultural Revolution, a case that helps broaden the scope of Mao-era killings.
Talking China: the latest in a series of interviews with Chinese thinkers on how they push for change, the writer Hu Fayun reflects on how tough it is to remain an honest person inside the system.
July 15, when the supporters of President Erdogan foiled a coup attempt against him, may have been a turning point in Turkish history, opening the way to despotism but entrenching civilian rule.
Does China have public thinkers? The documentary filmmaker Ai Xiaoming thinks it doesn't, and that the crackdown on human rights shows the evil nature of humanity. Ian Johnson reports from Wuhan.
Visiting Turkey in the aftermath of the failed coup of July 15, 2016, Christopher de Bellaigue found the country in a state of collective hyperventilation.
President Yoweri Museveni ruled Uganda for thirty years through a combination of bribery, blackmail, and brute force. Last week, he was sworn in for yet another five-year term.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a skillful political operator who guided his AK Party to victory in the recent elections. But at what cost to his country's fragile social fabric?