On Sunday, Bulgarians headed to the polls in unusually high numbers to deliver a resounding victory to the party of former president Rumen Radev, who held that office until January of this year. Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria won around 45 percent of the vote—one of the largest shares for a single party in Bulgaria’s democratic history, and enough for an absolute majority in th...

In December, President Donald Trump set in motion a revolution in federal drug policy: the reclassification of marijuana from federal Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. When Trump signed his executive order on this issue,

Last August, Europe granted full political asylum to Brazilian feminist and abortion rights advocate, Isabella Cêpa. Faced with up to twenty-five years in prison, Cêpa became Brazil’s first political...

As the Democrats attempt to supplant and replace Donald Trump and the Republicans in the 2026 and 2028 elections, lesson number one should be: Don’t counter Trump’s maximalist policies with maximalism of your own on the issues that got the party into trouble in the 2016 and 2024 elections—especially immigration. Unfortunately, California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer, th...

For more than two decades, groups concerned about the risks of artificial intelligence and its impact on society have warned that the creation of this technology may spell the end of humanity. Despite the increasing urgency of their rhetoric, their responses have been almost entirely technocratic, focused on technical research and. policy recommendations. The prophets of AI r...