election

How much change can reformist President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian bring to Iran?

July 11, 2024Politics

Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, has won Iran’s presidential election. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, about what this means for politics in Iran, as well as predictions for how the new president will govern alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Darjeeling is nestled amid lush tea gardens and overlooking the snow-capped Himalayas in India’s northeast. But landscapes like these pose challenges while conducting elections.

What it takes to pull off the world’s largest election in India

May 6, 2024Elections

Women voters expected to play significant role in India’s general election

May 2, 2024Politics

Anti-government Russian demonstrators took to the streets in Decembe, 2011, increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as he sought a new term as Russian president. The placard reads "Get tired! Leave!"

Putin’s Cold War mentality explains a lot

February 26, 2018Books

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi says his country's politicians must heal the country's ethnic divide.

Ethnic tensions threaten to engulf post-election Kenya. This activist sees a way out.

November 1, 2017Culture

Alexis Sinduhije, Samantha Power and Bryan Rich at the Committee to Protect Journalists awards in 2004

Burundi exile to US’s Samantha Power: ‘You shake the hand of the killers’

February 25, 2016Conflict

He used to be friends with Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations. But now a former Burundian journalist is sanctioned by Washington for advocating violence.