Port Jefferson Documentary Series’ (PJDS) spring 2026 roster includes stories of trials and tenacity, hardship and hope. Presented by the Port Jefferson Arts Counci ...

The trap is deceptively simple. A leader somewhere in the world develops a reputation as authoritarian, corrupt or repressive. Their record becomes widely known: democratic institutions are hollowed ...

It also needs to resolve a muddled “illiberal liberalism” that afflicts the way it has begun to pursue European autonomy. The EU can’t currently seem to decide whether it seeks independence so that it ...

Once conspiracy thinking enters the culture, it rarely remains confined to one target: Jews are suspected of secret influence, Muslims of hidden infiltration and Christians of covert theocratic ...

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Richard Lapper’s Lula! asks the more interesting question behind the flattery: how did a poor migrant from Brazil’s ...

Since reclaiming the prime minister’s job in 2010, Viktor Orban has methodically twisted the country’s media and intellectual life into perfect alignment with his Fidesz party. (The trick has worked ...

With the war in Iran in its second week, the question of who might lead if the Islamic regime collapses has taken on new urgency. Reza Pahlavi, the 65‑year‑old son of Iran’s deposed Shah, believes it ...

But while U.S. foreign policy decisions are uniquely consequential because of the country’s superpower status, the foreign policy realignment evident today is not at all unique to the United States or ...

In April, 2025, we contributed, with many international colleagues, to the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, “Achieving gender justice for global health equity”1—the result ...

Wider shifts in the global order are challenging the foreign policy trajectories of Balkan states. While expectations have existed of a clear integration into western structures, the current reality ...

Opinion: The great capitulation is over. This should be the year that liberal democracy fights back, in earnest.