Human rights
Middle East & Africa
Africa’s cynical master of power politics
Can Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s dictator, secure his legacy at home and abroad?
Leaders
Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice
Kagame’s intervention in Congo threatens his legacy at home
Middle East & Africa
What a massacre reveals about Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia
The killing of civilians is part of a disturbing pattern
Briefing
Nayib Bukele is devolving from tech-savvy reformer to autocrat
El Salvador’s president is young, MAGA-friendly and ruthless
Middle East & Africa
Meet Africa’s ascendant right
They are devout, well-connected and have a MAGA wind in their sail
Culture
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
First get your facts straight, argues Kenneth Roth, a top human-rights campaigner
China
Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China
Some aid money has been very well spent
China
An outrage that even China’s supine media has called out
Anger is growing over a form of detention linked to torture and deaths
Middle East & Africa
America concludes genocide has been committed in Sudan—again
The move highlights the magnitude of Sudan’s civil war but does little to end it
International
Why warriors should welcome laws of war
Lessons from a 17th-century thinker on preventing crimes against humanity
United States
A big transgender-rights case heads to America’s Supreme Court
The justices take on paediatric gender medicine