Feb 28, 2018
China is many things: an economic giant, a rising power in Asia and beyond, and a potential geopolitical rival to the United States. But it is also what might be called the world’s first high-tech autocracy, deploying state-of-the-art technology to monitor increasingly large aspects of its citizens' lives. What...
Feb 21, 2018
Venezuela is in the midst of economic collapse and political crisis. Inflation is skyrocketing. Average Venezuelans are facing shortages of necessities such as food and medicine. Oil production — the bulwark of the Venezuelan economy — is cratering. And the political stalemate between increasingly autocratic...
Feb 14, 2018
Vaccination against infectious disease is one of the wonders of modern science, preventing millions of deaths per year worldwide. Yet across the country, a movement of so-called “anti-vaxxers,” who claim that some routine childhood vaccinations cause autism, has grown and some American parents are refusing to have...
Feb 7, 2018
On July 1, tens of millions of Mexicans will go to the polls. They will elect a president, a congress, and thousands of state and local officials. Who are the major candidates for the presidency? What are the major parties contesting the congress? What will be the election’s salient issues? What are the stakes for the...