International

Voting at Gunpoint: Russia Holds Its First Wartime Parliamentary Election — and Stages It in Occupied Ukraine

World Politics 

Russians finish voting on Sunday in an election whose outcome was never seriously in doubt, but whose staging tells a great deal about how the Kremlin intends to carry its war into a fifth year. The three-day ballot for the 450-seat State Duma, which opened on Friday 18 September and closes…

Guinea-Bissau's Junta Unveils New Constitution as It Fights to Keep December Election Promise

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau

Ten months after soldiers overturned a disputed presidential election and installed a military government, Guinea-Bissau's ruling junta is racing to prove it can do what most West African coup-makers have not: hand power back on schedule. A new constitution, approved by voters in a late-…

"Effective Immediately": Trump Declares CNN, MS NOW and Politico Banned From the White House

World Politics 

Background

The modern White House press corps is an odd institution: it has no statutory basis, no charter and no guarantee of anything. Its access rests on custom — on the assumption, held by every administration since Franklin Roosevelt's, that the executive branch…

Cameroon's Succession Question Grows More Urgent as 93-Year-Old Biya's Opposition Fractures

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon

President Paul Biya's return to Cameroon on August 20, after 73 days at Geneva's InterContinental hotel, was staged by state media as the return of a vigorous head of state to a grateful nation. But the extended absence — his longest ever, eclipsing a 42-day stretch abroad in 2024 — has only…

After the Threats, a Handshake: Washington, Copenhagen and Nuuk Reach a Deal on Greenland

World Politics 

Background

For the better part of two years, the future of Greenland has been the most awkward question in the Western alliance. Donald Trump returned to the White House insisting that the world's largest island — a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark…

Morocco Heads to the Polls Wednesday With Turnout — Not the Result — the Real Question

RABAT, Morocco

With four days to go before Moroccans vote in parliamentary elections on September 23, the campaign has settled into an uneasy contest less about which party will govern than about whether a skeptical, disproportionately young electorate will bother to show up at all. A record 1,850 candidate…