How the Netherlands Made Geert Wilders Possible
Many voters may choose his anti-Islam party in a country once famous for its tolerance.
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Shailesh Andrade / Reuters Holi 2017: The Festival of Colors
Images of this year's Holi festival from India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Mark Rutte's Test
Can the Dutch prime minister’s center-right party forestall a Geert Wilders victory?
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters A New Test for South Korea's Young Democracy
The impeachment of Park Geun-hye reflects a triumph for a society tired of corruption. But she’s merely a symptom of a far deeper problem.
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Khaled Abdullah / Reuters Trump's Yemen Policy Serves Saudi Royals Better Than Americans
The president is escalating another costly war of choice in a country where blowback for the many innocents killed is more likely than lasting security gains.
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Courtesy of CNN Reza Aslan and the Risks of Making Religion Relatable
The scholar says his new TV show is just what minorities need. Critics say the opposite. What if both are right?
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Owen Davey Making Athens Great Again
How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal.
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Andrew Medichini / AP Will Pope Francis Allow Married Men to Become Priests?
The pontiff said he’s open to studying the question—but that doesn’t mean he’ll do away with celibacy.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: 3/4–3/10
A pharaoh statue discovered in Egypt, a close look at Saturn’s tiny ‘ravioli’ moon, marches on International Women’s Day, colorful Holi images from India, and much more.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters When the Generals Become Democracy's Guardians
Military officers have checked some of the president’s uglier populist impulses. But what does that mean for liberal values?
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Ranked: Bizarre Explanations for Celebrities’ Meetings with Julian Assange
It’s not for his cat. But maybe it should be.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters Culinary Feminism and Banksy Goes to Bethlehem: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Shah Marai / AFP / Getty The Impossible Job of Afghanistan's Attorney General
When a would-be reformer meets one of the most corrupt institutions in a country infamous for graft
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Toru Hanai / Reuters The Wild Boars of Fukushima
Six years after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the evacuation zone around the crippled nuclear power plant remains devoid of humans—but the boars have moved in.
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Jean-Claude Lother / Synecdoche / Artemis Productions Inside France’s Most Controversial Film of the Moment
The debate around the new French arthouse drama This Is Our Land says a lot about the rise of the country’s far-right.
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Kevin Tong Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Can the Intelligence Community Secure Its Own Hacking Tools?
The contents of the latest Wikileaks dump are perhaps less revealing than the fact of the leaks themselves.
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The Empress Alexandra and the Freedom to Be Imperfect
Today is International Women’s Day. It also happens to be the 100th anniversary of the start of the revolution that…
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Vincent Kessler / Reuters 'Vote for Woman': How Africa Got Its First Female President
More than a decade ago, Liberia made history. A new biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounts how.
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Library of Congress / Bettmann / Getty Women At Work in 1917
For International Women’s Day 2017, a glimpse of what the workplace was like for women a century ago, in 1917.
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Andres Stapff / Reuters Women At Work in 2017
For International Women’s Day 2017, Reuters photographers around the world sought out women from many different backgrounds and cultures, and created portraits of them on the job.
