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January 5, 2015

Mexico
Elections to Watch in 2015

The region will hold just two presidential elections this year, choosing new leaders in Guatemala and Argentina. More prevalent will be congressional and local elections. Midterms in Mexico, Venezuel…

October 23, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Slavery: As Modern as It Is Ancient

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. The Australia based, Walk Free Foundation on Oct 17 published their first annu…

Mauritanian anti-slavery protesters march to demand the liberation of imprisoned abolitionist leader Biram Ould Abeid in Nouakchott, May 26, 2012.

January 9, 2015

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Weekend Reading: Fighting Assad And ISIS, The Islamic State Before The Islamic State, and Libya’s Draft Constitution

Ruslan Trad interviews Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi, a Raqqa-based Syrian activist fighting both the Assad regime and ISIS. Kevin Jackson investigates a jihadist caliphate that existed prior to ISIS. Rea…

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December 4, 2019

Noncommunicable Diseases
Autocracy Is Hazardous for Your Health

Democracy does not die in the darkness so often anymore. It dies in the light, one election at a time, with voters embracing the populists and autocrats who promise to cut the red tape and deliver th…

Health workers demonstrate outside the hotel where the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has its headquarters to count the election votes, in La Paz, on October 22, 2019.

February 23, 2011

Morocco
The President’s Remarks on Libya

President Barack Obama speaks about Libya as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens in the White House on February 23, 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/Courtesy Reuters) President Obama addressed the situa…

President Barack Obama speaks about Libya as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens in the White House on February 23, 2011.