The former New Jersey governor announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Wendy Leutert is a visiting researcher at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center and a PhD candidate in government at Cornell University. She worked for International Crisis Group …

This week: encrypted messenger problems in the Middle East, domain name seizures, and a subversive cartoon pig gets banned from the Chinese internet. 

This article was originally published here on ForeignPolicy.com on Monday, January 5, 2015. Almost as soon as the nasheed, a religious chant, begins, an improvised explosive device destroys a milita…