Bouteflika’s resignation in Algeria is more the result of internal factional strife than people power. To understand why—and to see what may come next—it helps to look at some history.

Macron’s recent address to the “citizens of Europe” captures the high stakes of this European election season—when first-order questions about Brexit and the EU project loom over all.

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.

Some of the root causes of the unrest in Paris are specifically French. But many of them are all too familiar to mature economies worldwide.

The French President is facing down the perfect storm of labor protests against his reforms. Will he be as ironclad as Maggie?

Visions of a pan-EU army beguile European leaders in the age of Trump and Brexit. Whether they can manage to create it is another matter.

The fall of the Syrian city to Assad’s forces marks a grim ending to Pax Americana in the Middle East.

Humanity is once again living in a millenarian moment.

A French-born observer examines two new books on immigration and the challenges of American civic nationalism.