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ANKARA — If civil servants in Ankara are an accurate barometer of shifting fronts in Turkey’s national politics, then the country’s longest serving leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, really could be in trouble in May’s…

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” Russian President Vladimir Putin is now wanted…

Campaigners have raised fears that bouncers could be placed at some polling stations to turn away voters who do not have the right ID.Supporters of Open Britain and Unlock Democracy gathered in Westminster on Tuesday to demand new voting…

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The EU has reached a deal to send Ukraine 1 million rounds of ammunition within the next 12…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a warning about the risk of future political violence and the dangers of ongoing misinformation and denialism regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.  At a sentencing hearing for…

Republicans are in the midst of waging a “fascist war” against freedom and democracy, according to a recent Salon piece that criticizes the use of the term “culture wars” to mask the supposedly true intentions of the “evil forces”…

The European Union and Thailand are relaunching negotiations on a free trade deal, the European Commission said Wednesday. The announcement, which confirmed an earlier report by POLITICO, follows a virtual…

Preferential voting takes us into more controversial terrain because it disproportionately favours the major parties. Yet it also acts as a consensus builder, another useful safety valve at a time of extreme polarisation.Proportional…

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. “I can’t see how this will be the century of China.”  In a recent op-ed, Dutch Prime…

The situation in Moldova is “extremely volatile,” Interior Minister Ana Revenco said Friday, amid fears that Russia is fomenting a coup to topple the pro-EU Moldovan government. “We are seeing how Moscow,…