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A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.

By Michael Albertus

Organizers must reduce the event’s carbon footprint.

By Madeleine Orr

It is clear Venezuelans have chosen to oust President Maduro. Whether that will happen remains in question.

By María Corina Machado

China could seize control of a strategically vital waterway without firing a shot.

By Oriana Skylar Mastro

With Netanyahu’s visit, Congress can’t ignore its role in Gaza’s carnage.

By Megan K. Stack

Turkey’s four million stray dogs are inseparable from the idea of the country itself. But maybe not for much longer.

By Kaya Genc

The United States can support Venezuelan democracy by creating an offramp for President Nicolás Maduro.

By Roberto Patiño

This diminutive fish has been making other things taste great for millenniums.

By Christopher Beckman

The protests and political action of young Kenyans in recent weeks marks a seismic shift for the country.

By Carey Baraka

For many young Iranians, as long as an octogenarian cleric and his allies rule over their country, the country can’t be free.

By Holly Dagres

The U.S. national security adviser argues that America’s allies in NATO are pulling their weight and paying their fair share of the costs of a common defense.

By Jake Sullivan

Through a stunning act of collective responsibility, the far right has been stopped.

By David Broder

It’s essential that NATO members agree on how they see the war in Ukraine.

By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura

It is a little early to celebrate this election as a triumph for the center.

By Rory Stewart

Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline.

By Sergey Radchenko

Keir Starmer is set to carry a deeply authoritarian impulse into government.

By Oliver Eagleton

The stakes have never been higher.

By Philippe Marlière

There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?

By Adam Kuper

The international community must insist on reversing the restriction of Afghan women’s and girls’ rights and on women’s meaningful participation in decision making.

By Richard Bennett

We believe the prime minister is driving Israel downhill at an alarming speed, to the extent that we may eventually lose the country we love.

By David Harel, Tamir Pardo, Talia Sasson, Ehud Barak, Aaron Ciechanover and David Grossman

The modest campaign created an opening for today’s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. backlash.

By Omar G. Encarnación

The island’s power crisis illustrates the consequences of putting essential services in the hands of a private entity.

By Yarimar Bonilla

It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.

By Christopher Caldwell

Invoking Nazis and pogroms in discussing the Hamas attacks is wrong and offensive and helps the Israeli government avoid responsibility for its failures.

By Jonathan Dekel-Chen

They are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.

By Martin Griffiths

“When you live in the past, the people around you hate you, don’t understand and don’t accept you,” Valentyna Odnoviu wrote.

By Frankie Mills

A peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine will stop the killing and in the long run make Ukraine better able to defend itself and democracy.

By A. Walter Dorn

The U.S. Treasury secretary explains why America and its allies should unlock the value of Russian capital immobilized at the start of the war to give Ukraine the financing it needs.

By Janet L. Yellen

In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron has taken a dangerous gamble.

By Cole Stangler

A cease-fire deal in Gaza might halt a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

By Mairav Zonszein