In May 2022, Lebanon held parliamentary elections for the first time since the 2019 political revolution and the 2020 Beirut blast. Lebanon now faces a political corruption crisis and economic…
Neither the vote of no confidence against PM Boris Johnson nor May’s local elections across the UK have dealt the terminal blow to Johnson’s premiership, yet the country’s political landscape…
The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in India is reaching a boiling point as Modi and the BJP government are sharing dangerous rhetoric and encouraging communal ethnic violence. With some far-right…
Gabriel Boric won the highly contested Chilean presidential election on 19 December 2021. Boric, leader of the left-wing Chilean party, has promised to turn a new leaf in Chilean politics.…
On the 31st of October, the Japanese voted for stability. The long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party managed to keep its majority in the House of Representatives, the more powerful of the…
With the Communist Party (KPÖ) making first place in the September 2021 municipal elections in Graz, Austria, its leader Elke Kahr will likely be forming a coalition with the Greens…
Last month Russia held elections to the State Duma: the lower chamber of the Russian parliament. In the months leading up to the election days, all the participating parties were…
In Germany’s election the SPD emerged victorious, with the CDU suffering historic losses. A “traffic light” coalition of SPD, FDP and Greens looks the most likely next government. By David…
In recent months Haiti has faced the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, a devastating earthquake, and Tropical Storm Grace. Haitian civil society argues that Haiti should independently rebuild its country,…
In April and May of 2021, India underwent one of the world’s worst second waves of COVID-19. While new cases have sharply decreased, and Indonesia has become the new epicenter…