There is a better way to fix our health care mess than Medicare for All—yet the stunted U.S. debate has buried its consideration.

Thailand’s upcoming elections are the latest clash in a complex power game between rival elites—and a reminder that the trappings of democracy are not always what they seem.

Robert M. Kaplan’s More Than Medicine offers a genteel, scholarly presentation of the dumpster fire that is the American health care system, but he fails to place blame for it squarely where it belongs: the U.S. health care business model.

The Chinese have long paid close attention to the narratives being conveyed by popular culture. It’s about time we did the same.

An ex-Green politician discusses the failure of German elites—and why shunning populists backfires.

Over the past year, a Pashtun awakening has transformed war-torn Waziristan from a hotbed of terrorism to a battleground for civil rights. But can the movement bring real change?

After rigged elections installed a pliant opposition leader in office, neither a true transfer of power nor a revolution seem likely in DR Congo.

From Roma to Mary Poppins Returns, fictional portraits of nannies are more popular than ever. Yet the reality of their lives—and the dysfunction of our public policy on care work—is too often obscured.

The arrest of an American businessman in Russia echoes the Khodorkovsky and Browder episodes from the early 2000s.

How the United States can confront Russian doping and start to fix international sport governance.