There’s something farcical—but entirely rational—about the way authoritarians such as Egypt’s Sisi invoke legal justifications for repression.

Just when the United Arab Emirates thought it was done with focusing on foreign policy, they’re getting pulled back in.

Sudan’s military junta and Sudan’s citizens have fundamentally different visions for the country’s future.

The final days of 2021 in the Horn of Africa are demonstrating just how contagious authoritarianism and contempt for popular will can be—and how dangerous.