Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China -- image via X By Biljana Vankovska Just days before the second round of local elections in Macedonia, everyone here seems obsessed with one question: who will control the municipalities —and through them, control us? Power in this country flows like a pyramid: from Vodno (the president’s office) to Ilindenska (the government’s building), and down to every local council. My local readers will

Image from a Kathmandu protest - cropped via X By Atul Chandra and Pramesh Pokharel Kathmandu is on edge not because of “apps,” but...

Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Marcelo Depieri Starting in the 1990s, a new form of...

Shot from the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China -- public domain image By Shiran Illanperuma China’s modernisation...