In a world exclusive for THE WEEK, former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina offers a deeply personal account of her nation's ...

The Washington Post reported on a clandestine cabal of right-wing donors that is amassing unprecedented power, using sophisticated data collection and voter manipulation to install their preferred ...

Professor of political science, Zabadi, says Nigeria’s political system serves elite interests, lacking ideology, internal ...

Autocrats vs. Democrats is ultimately a nostalgic read whose comforting narrative allows foreign policy elites to escape any ...

In a column about eight years ago, I argued that the Philippines lived not in a true democracy, but in a nominal one. We continue to see elections and similar democratic rituals on the surface, but ...

Anwar Ibrahim, 25, is so frustrated with Iraq's sectarian politics that he is running for parliament, joining a wave of young Iraqis challenging an entrenched elite at elections next week. “I believe ...

This was the resounding chant of the Filipino rap collective Morobeats as they marched through EDSA with thousands of protesters to denounce massive corruption at the Trillion People March on Sept. 21 ...

Protesters defied a curfew to set fire to government buildings and the homes of politicians as unrest over censorship and economic issues continued. Bhadra Sharma and Alex Travelli Reporting from ...

A civil activist and philanthropist, Princess Olatorera Majekodunmi-Oniru has called on the United States and the international community to lend support not to Nigeria’s entrenched political elite, ...