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Women in rural areas already have a hard time getting ordinary health care.

Within Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere, here’s what we know about civil resistance.

The "unlimited" partnership between China and Russia may have some limits after all.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates haven’t been aligning with the United States — or Russia

The battle over casualties in the Ukraine war is just beginning.

Destroying hospitals and critical infrastructure is part of the playbook.

Despite popular fascination with figures from the Lone Ranger to Batman, vigilantes are never simply trying to protect public safety.

Would World Trade Organization members change the rules?

What is gender equality, exactly – and who gets to define what it should look like?

Conservatives are increasingly imposing government control over sexuality and gender.

If European countries want to welcome these refugees, here's what they can learn from our research.

For decades, a small, intensely committed Senate minority was able to use Senate rules to block change and maintain the Jim Crow system in the South.

Here’s what the European Union might offer instead.

Neutral countries today are nonaligned — and well-armed.

But around the globe, activists and policymakers have laid out economic recovery plans that would help reverse the losses — and help eliminate the reasons women are unequal in the first place.

Here's what my research found.

When women take political leadership positions, beware the backlash.

The research shows that Russian speakers across much of Ukraine identify as Ukrainian.