Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land. Nearly every square inch of soil outside Antarctica is now owned and tucked within national borders. B...

A conversation with political scientist Eddie Yang on how fear and self-censorship blind AI systems built to enforce them, and why the same data problem could be quietly contaminating AI in the West

It’s shocking, and endangers prospects for democracy – but it’s in keeping with a new geopolitical trend

Public lands are again under siege by the Trump administration

A conversation with China scholar Susan Whiting on how China has reshuffled land to stoke its development, and what its current economic crisis means for the future

A conversation with anthropologist Paul Kohlbry on how Palestinians in the West Bank navigate occupation, property markets, and the struggle to stay on the land

Grâce à de nouvelles données, deux jeunes chercheurs révèlent un paradoxe : les infrastructures développées par la monarchie pour mieux gouverner la France ont aussi préparé les conditions de sa chute...

A new generation of right-wing outsiders is triumphing across Latin America.

A conversation with political scientist Oliver Kaplan on the country's pivotal election and the hard lessons of over half a century of conflict

The American Revolution began as a land grab. Our politics still revolve around the same hunger.

A conversation with Peruvian political scientist Alberto Vergara on the country's endless crisis and the dangers of powerless democracy

Ten American cities just joined a global coalition of mayors dedicated to protecting democracy and sustainability even if their national governments don’t

My interview with Harvard Law Professor and election law expert Nick Stephanopoulos on what the Callais decision means and how it will unleash a new wave of racial and partisan gerrymandering

Its recent election debacle sets the stage for a vote with few good outcomes

This Sunday's election in Hungary could bring down its strongman and signal headwinds for right-wing populists around the globe

In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Michael Albertus and Victor Gay about their open access article, State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution. AP...

New reports show that the vaunted "Third Wave" of democracy has now been mostly erased and American democracy is on the rocks. 2026 could determine whether there is a turnaround.

My interview with Stanford University scholar and Associate Director of the Program on Arab Reform and Development Hesham Sallam on what the war in Iran will – and won't – change in the Middle East

How the war could seed conflict and instability across the region and a power vacuum in Iran

by Mike Albertus and Victor Gay

What began with rebuilding Gaza from scratch could rewire global cooperation

Excessive federal force, widespread images and videos of ICE abuse, and indiscriminate and mistaken targeting are driving a repetitive repression/backlash cycle

With his Greenland obsession, the US president is reviving a national tradition: expansion via land grabs

More than just part of a supercharged deportation campaign, Minneapolis is a legal and social testing ground for the Trump administration

Iran and Cuba are on the Trump administration's hit list. Greenland and Colombia are on its wish list.

As bad as things look, the country’s democratic forces broke through a similar jam in 1958.

Toppling a dictatorship is easier than building a functional state to take its place.

Land Displacement & the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians page for UNSUNG HISTORY

An interview with RAND Europe geopolitical analyst Klaus Dodds on his new book on the thawing Arctic and what that means for global politics

José Kast’s right-wing agenda has implications far beyond Chile’s borders.

A likely Trump administration win in the case will steal power from Congress and have big implications for civil servants throughout government

My interview with Cornell Professor Suzanne Mettler and Johns Hopkins Fellow Trevor Brown on their new book on America's growing rural-urban split

Gauging likely scenarios amid the building American threats to Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro

My interview with NYU Politics Professor and leading scholar Adam Przeworski on a career's worth of insight on what makes democracy thrive or fail

The only way to avoid war in Venezuela may be if its leader doesn’t fear leaving office.

Little came of it, except to embolden Republicans in playing hardball with Democrats

It’s Latin America’s traditional beacon of stability—and its next country to vote for the far right.

Toppling a dictatorship is easier than building a functional state to take its place.