Politics

An announced diesel arrangement with Russia offers Washington a route towards fuel relief—and exposes the difficult bargain between domestic prices, sanctions and support for Ukraine.

Navi Pillay’s Peace Prize places international justice in the spotlight. Its significance lies not in pretending courts can stop conflict alone, but in asking what power should still have to answer for.

Elections decide who takes office. The less visible test of a democracy is what happens to courts, scrutiny and the right to challenge power between one vote and the next.

Europe’s renewed hybrid-threat measures expose a difficult problem: how to respond to hostile interference when responsibility is contested—and protect legitimate dissent at the same time.

Pacific governments are taking a specific agenda into COP31. The question is whether the visibility of climate vulnerability can become leverage over money, implementation and the terms of a deal.