Why Political Leaders Are Never to Blame
Barack Obama and Margaret Thatcher are prophets who came to embody their countries’ stories and, crucially, changed those stories.
Barack Obama and Margaret Thatcher are prophets who came to embody their countries’ stories and, crucially, changed those stories.
What lies behind the arguments over a Mary Wollstonecraft statue?
The Bailong Elevator in China, continued wildfires in California, a surge in COVID-19 cases in the U.S., Christmas preparations during a pandemic, a rocket launch to the ISS, and much more
Public opinion toward China has darkened, and with Joe Biden set to become president, there is little prospect of Beijing fixing its mistake.
Some of the top and winning images from this year’s landscape-photography competition
Presidents and their challengers haven’t always admitted defeat. Just look at Mexico.
After six weeks of armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a peace agreement, a handover of disputed territories, and mourning
Many leaders in Asia, in particular, remain unhappy with the former president’s foreign policy.
Meet the feminist aristocrats fighting for the right of daughters to inherit peerages.
For perhaps no other country is the answer more immediately existential than Belarus.
Dancing on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, monowheel broomsticks in Brazil, celebrations of Joe Biden’s presidential win, a press conference at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping, and much more
Some of the winning and honored images from the 2020 competition in close-up, macro, and micro photography
The question for the Continent’s leaders now is whether they can agree on what they are collectively for, not just what they are against.
When you’re used to fighting enemies, how do you go back to having mere opponents?
Serious questions about America’s role in the world will not go away just because Donald Trump was defeated.
They have been a part of American democracy for nearly two decades. They’ve never seen anything like this.
After the 2020 election, who would bother to listen to the U.S. about how to run a vote?
Hurricane Eta damage in Nicaragua, a Halloween blue moon, a presidential election in the U.S., earthquake aftermath in Turkey, a whale-tail wreck in the Netherlands, and much more
The U.S. election proves that this divisive style of politics is still viable.
Trump railed baselessly against fraud and laid claim to an election whose result remains in doubt.