Revolutions

Political repression and a teetering economy have sparked widespread protests and chants of “Death to the Dictator.”

With demonstrations in dozens of cities across Iran, Ali Khamenei and his regime are faced with a dilemma.

Fed up with élite corruption and widening inequality, a youth-led movement toppled the government in forty-eight hours. Now what?

Women are still defying and dying in an uprising that is historically unique for being centered on women’s freedom. 

The revolution, led by the formerly enslaved Toussaint Louverture, effectively forced France to abolish slavery. Yet many French high-school students learn nothing about this chapter of their history.

Can a once-in-a-generation political revolution survive the pandemic?

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police alone.

It is a valuable feature of our country that we mark its birth by celebrating not a triumph of force but the statement of an idea.

Though I told my father that his rosy perception of the country’s past was somewhat warped, for him, and many others, that image of Sudan was a source of some fulfillment and hope.

Suppressing an uprising, President Daniel Ortega borrows tactics from autocrats abroad.

Once the richest country in South America, it now has the world’s highest inflation rate and is plagued by hunger and violent crime. How did this happen?