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The Chinese leader’s cult reaches into the most remote regions of the country.

For decades, the country managed to avoid most problems suffered by dictatorships. Now Xi Jinping’s personal power play risks undermining everything that made China exceptional.

As India’s police conjure up the specter of urban Maoist terror, the real insurgency remains deep in the jungle.

How Silvio Berlusconi’s top propagandist become one of Matteo Salvini’s toughest critics.

Indians are increasingly forced to choose between Hindu nationalism and egalitarian dictatorship.

The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy.

A new wave of historical dramas is telling the wrong stories about the country’s past.

The philosophy of economics doesn’t make for a good movie. It gets easier if you drop the philosophy and the economics.

Xi Jinping's dictatorship isn't what the end of history was supposed to look like.

It was hot and muggy as monsoon season crested in the summer of 1954.

China's next-generation supercollider will unlock secrets of the universe — and destroy the ideals of the scientists running it.

Meet Chen Miner, the man who has been getting groomed to run China — without anyone in the West seeming to notice.

Why Xi Jinping will dominate this week's 19th Party Congress and what it means for China's future.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's son has devoted his life to aiding children of imprisoned radical leftists. And his work is about to become more urgent than ever.

American MMA fighter Jeff Monson is a posterboy for the Russian Communist Party's propaganda push. But he may be a pawn in a larger game.

Twenty-five years after the great revolution that toppled the Soviet regime, the spirit of dignity and freedom still burns.

Donald Trump's plan would dredge up a Cold War-era law that critics say betrayed U.S. values without improving security.

A red scare is sweeping Indonesia, digging up the ghosts of the 1965-1966 mass killings, and threatening a fragile democracy.

President Obama's Cuba visit marks his last tool to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Scientists in North Korea claim they have invented hangover-free alcohol.