What makes elected leaders step down at the appointed hour, and what do they have to look forward to once their terms end? A look at the political afterlives of…
The People’s Republic of China uses massive amounts of propaganda to influence how it is perceived beyond its borders. “Big data” reveal how that image is carefully and deliberately shaped…
In the summer of 1997, I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found…