In recent decades, the institutions created to prevent corrupt dealings have themselves become complicit. Whistleblowers need protection, now more than ever.
This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.
The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.
The split between hardline Trump loyalists and the rest of the country continues to widen, with the same fracturing mirrored in Germany and the United Kingdom.
My visit to the besieged city included protests, tear gas, and arrests. It drove home the degree to which Hong Kong has become a militarized police state.