The tragic February 6 earthquakes did not put even a day’s pause on politics. Instead, they raised the stakes in what already felt like an existential election.

If exiled dissidents can be attacked even in the strongest democracies, none of us are safe.

It’s not too late for democratic leaders to establish a credible global deterrent against the murder of journalists.

From the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily’s prolific antipoverty propaganda push in over 40 countries, to Chinese hackers using Facebook to target Uyghurs abroad, Beijing has impacted global media in several ways this past month.

Major developments in 2019 shifted the democratic trajectories of six key countries.