The Globalist

The country’s leader since 2003 has been adept at evading term limits or restarting the clock on them.

The country might be constitutionally backward on other fronts, but it is still a model on executive term limits.

Post-Mao term limits became important when China’s presidency took on the country’s lead role, but Xi Jinping is ending them.

Putin embarked on yet another re-election bid, making full use of his constitutional changes over the years.

Which world regions have the widest gender gaps and which are closing slowest?

Across five economic dimensions, women’s inclusion in recent years has been slower than in other areas of life.

Health outcomes are even closer but moving in the wrong direction.

The overall gender gap and the political representation gap specifically is still a century from closing at the current pace.

Once a haven for other Africans, the country’s economic crisis has soured public opinion on foreigners.

Decades after Apartheid, violence remains an unresolved obstacle to the country’s success.