Congressmen Steny Hoyer and Tom Cole discussed the U.S. role in promoting democracy and freedom.
"Democracy thrives when women and young people stand up and demand more from authority," said former President of Malawi Joyce Banda.
"Autocracy is really on the rise," said Congressman Adam Schiff at the 2019 Copenhagen Democracy Summit.
In Sudan, civilians and the military have reached a power-sharing agreement. But how will they implement it?
Hungary's Central European University, backed by George Soros, still faces uncertainties about whether it will be forced to leave the country and what that would mean for students and the school.
In an interview with Laura Butterbrodt, Central European University's Zsolt Enyedi explains continuing uncertainty at CEU.
Are we visible? Women in five countries attempt to answer that question.
Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation — amid America’s retreat.
The Italian mafia makes millions by exploiting migrants. In the Italian south, the lives of foreign agricultural laborers are so cheap that many NGOs have described their conditions as a modern form of slavery.
The police huddled for hours each day, headphones on, eavesdropping on the doctor. They'd tapped his cellphone, bugged his office, planted a camera in a trattoria.
And it’s not because of Brexit.
In an effort to make the Iceland's geothermal energy even greener, scientists work on technique to capture and convert carbon to basalt—if successful, the strategy could popularize far beyond the volcanic island.
Planet Earth's average temperature has risen about one degree Fahrenheit in the last fifty years. By the end of this century it will be several degrees higher, according to the latest climate research. But global warming is doing more than simply making things a little warmer.
It has been 14 years since the Dayton Peace Accords, brokered at an Ohio Air Force base, ended the brutal civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For more than a decade the ex-Soviet republic of Latvia was a poster child of seamless transition to a prosperous post-Communist world. It entered the European Union in 2004 and for several years thereafter posted one of Europe's highest growth rates, fueled by access to cheap credit and domestic...
In talking about the Real IRA, the splinter group that took responsibility for the March 7 attack on an army barracks outside of Belfast that left two soldiers dead, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has said, "The people we are arresting are not 50 or 60 year olds from...
How does an affluent First World nation-state go from stability to near social collapse in the space of a week? What prompts a generation characterized by political apathy to flood into the streets? Why does a nouveaux-riche country with a slowing growth rate express its frustration with such violent...
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