Politics

 

April 17, 2019 

 

On Wednesday, Indonesians go to the polls to determine their next president.

April 16, 2019

If a basic tenet of communism is equality, including based on gender, then from some points of view the Socialist Republic of Vietnam would seem to be faring well on its founding ideology.

 

April 15, 2019 

 

When a court in South Korea overturned the country’s restrictive abortion laws recently, it joined a global trend toward easing abortion laws.

Other countries that are stubbornly clinging to the criminalization of abortion should follow suit.  

 

April 16, 2019 

 

A major fire has broken out at the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris, causing massive damage to the 12th-century building.

 

April 15, 2019 

 

At this year's International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russian leaders made the most peaceable statements to date about Moscow's long-term plans for the a rapidly melting Arctic.