Global Opinions

Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to be persecuted in Russia and Crimea.

Revolution is not the answer. Negotiation is.

If the crown prince's criminal apparatus is not dismantled, there will be more victims like Jamal Khashoggi.

A good future is one where MBS is internally checked by free Saudis who are able to demand accountability from their government.

The Taliban benefits from the environment of fear and hopelessness around the peace process and the lack of critical voices demanding an inclusive peace.

López Obrador's decision to stand by Salgado has dismayed activists who have fought for years against the scourge of gender violence in Mexico.

The new administration can learn from the mistakes of its predecessors.

Fear was ever-present. Schools, movie houses, restaurants and stores closed. Vacations were canceled. Everyone wore masks.

Khashoggi would have wanted to be sure that the new Biden administration had truly resolved: Never again.

Democracies must fight for a free Internet, as China pushes the other way.

Lecturing Egypt about human rights from afar won’t help anything.

Georgia has been a test case for Western influence in the post-Soviet space. This week it failed.

The political genius of these phony wars is that “woke” has no clear meaning; the term’s malleability makes it the perfect enemy.

The persecution of a young climate activist highlights the prime minister’s drift toward autocracy.

It is extraordinarily difficult to be an independent journalist today in India — a thriving democracy when it comes to the peaceful transition of power, but a distinctly diminishing democracy when it comes to other institutional freedoms.

How can a society move forward when parts of it — usually the brightest, most creative and independent — are locked away or broken?

An investigation exposes the members of a Kremlin hit team.

Why the events of the Arab Spring are burned into my memory.

It will be difficult to rebuild an alliance after the past administration’s missteps.

The dismantling of Venezuela’s environmental institutions and the collapse of its oil sector have generated a chain reaction of unsustainable natural resource extraction.