El Salvador’s president launched a ‘self-coup.’ Watch for creeping corruption and authoritarianism.
Peru’s authoritarian past is a cautionary tale for El Salvador’s future
Brazilian police killed 27 people in a single raid this month. That doesn’t make Rio de Janeiro safer.
Banning police raids could help reduce crime and save lives. Here’s the research.
Will the pandemic spark a religious revival in the Muslim world?
A new survey measures economic stress and religiosity levels in five countries
Saudi Twitter blew up with support for the crown prince. How much of it is genuine?
Tweets in support of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman racked up after a U.S. report implicated him in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The Trump years launched the biggest sustained protest movement in U.S. history. It’s not over.
Here’s what we learned by counting the protests during the past four years.
Biden ended the Muslim travel ban. A much tougher problem persists.
American Muslims continue to face bias, even when they uphold democratic ideals
In dozens of countries, governments rely on Internet shutdowns to hide repression
Social media rhetoric from politicians, citizens and others helped influence political moves