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In a year in which countries representing almost half the world's population called voters to the polls, democracies endured ...

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An axis of autocracies led by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is challenging the democratic world order.

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As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...

The West, Lavrov said, clings to America’s decaying hegemony but is inexorably losing ground to the “free world”—his Orwellian term for the axis of autocracies led by Russia, China ...

It intensified after Iran’s Revolution. 2024 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The ...