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​Protesters carry an Indonesian flag and a flag from Japanese anime 'One Piece' during a protest in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 29, 2025.
What We're Watching

What We’re Watching: Killing further inflames Indonesian protests, India and Canada mend ties, El Salvador continues authoritarian drift

Small Country Big Story: El Salvador and the appeal of the "world's coolest dictator"
Analysis

Small Country Big Story: El Salvador and the appeal of the "world's coolest dictator"

As Latin America gears up for a huge cycle of elections, Nayib Bukele's strongman approach to crime is winning admirers across the region.

Trump’s America: A kleptocracy but not a police state
Quick Take

Trump’s America: A kleptocracy but not a police state

Is America turning into a kleptocracy or a dictatorship under President Trump, or just stuck somewhere in between? On Quick Take, Ian Bremmer breaks down why US politics is more pay-to-play than ever, but why there’s still plenty standing in the way of any would-be strongman.

Putin "wins" Russia election, but at what cost?
Quick Take

Putin "wins" Russia election, but at what cost?

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Putin feels domestically quite stable. That's true politically. It's also true economically. The Russian economy is not performing well. The growth we're seeing in the Russian economy is because of the war economy, which is a massive piece of what the economy represents today. But they're losing lots of human capital.

Ian Bremmer on Putin and Tucker
Quick Take

Ian Bremmer on Putin and Tucker

What happened when Tucker Carlson met Vladimir Putin? Was it news, propaganda, theatre, or all three? Ian Bremmer breaks down what you need to know now in his latest Quick Take. Ian weighs in on Carlson's highly-anticipated interview with Putin and why it revealed what he and all other megalomaniacs have in common. The two-hour sit-down dropped to much fanfare from all sides of the political spectrum. Will there be any fallout from Putin’s first interview with an American since the start of the “special military operation” in Ukraine?

El Salvador's Bukele: The posterboy for popular authoritarianism
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El Salvador's Bukele: The posterboy for popular authoritarianism

Nayib Bukele became El Salvador's president at 37, as LatAm's youngest elected head of state. He was an outspoken candidate on social media with an affinity for cryptocurrency but has since unraveled as a raging authoritarian.

Francis Fukuyama: Americans should be very worried about failing democracy
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Francis Fukuyama: Americans should be very worried about failing democracy

The prospect of another Trump presidency can be hard to imagine. Still, before we even get there, we must confront the possibility of political violence in the months leading up to November 5.

A view shows graves of killed Ukrainian defenders, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a cemetery in Kharkiv, Ukraine January 31, 2023.
News

Hard Numbers … after a year of war in Ukraine

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified 18,955 Ukrainian civilian casualties (7,199 killed, including 438 children), though it believes the actual numbers are higher.

Cutouts of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khatami, China's Xi Jinping & Russia's President Vladimir Putin standing on blocks in the sea
Europe

The high price of isolation

The men who rule Russia, China, and Iran are lonely in power. That creates serious problems for them — and for the rest of us.

Democracy is resilient - but so is authoritarianism around the world
Quick Take

Democracy is resilient - but so is authoritarianism around the world

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I thought I would talk about the state of democracy. Of course, over the course of the last 10 years, there's been so much discussion of the world becoming more illiberal, lower case, that more people in the world are living under authoritarian regimes or mixed governments, hybrid governments than living under pure democracy. Is that now changing?