Religion

Religious leaders can help convince the most ethnocentric and authoritarian U.S. voters to oppose Washington’s backing of abusive dictators.

Avigdor Lieberman could determine whether Benjamin Netanyahu gets another term. What does he want?   

The youth vote is becoming increasingly important in Argentina, but the leading presidential candidates are deliberately avoiding the issue that matters most to them.

The Shiite group is making inroads with other communities. Here’s how—and why.

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is an election-winning machine. But its ideology is sharply at odds with economic or social common sense.

The Saudi crown prince’s regional aggression and disdain for human rights have prompted religious scholars and pious pilgrims to refuse to go on the hajj. 

How religious communities in the United States are providing free health care and overcoming anti-immigrant sentiment.

Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is publicly attacking the pope in a battle for the country’s soul.

And what that means for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party

The Saudi crown prince vowed to crack down on radical clerics—but the victims have mostly been advocates for moderate Islam.

Orthodox Christianity—and Vladimir Putin—are at the center of the country’s newest culture war.

Roughly 1,000 women in the Philippines die every year from lack of safe terminations. Others go to jail.

And it’s not because of Brexit.

The prime minister returns to power, but after an ugly 2019 election season, the very nature of India’s democracy could be changing.

The Australian Labor Party made the same mistakes that have led to failure for center-left leaders across the globe—and the right is reaping the benefits.

When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, a crackdown on the Muslim minority ensued.

Turkey is seeking influence and votes throughout the EU and spreading ideas that imperil efforts to integrate the Turkish diaspora.

Coordinated blasts recall the island country’s violent past.

Netanyahu’s embrace and the left’s hostility have made the fast-growing Haredi Jewish population the right’s most reliable constituency.

The endless conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East are ritual, not strategy.