Barriers to services trade remained high in 2025, as new restrictions offset market-opening reforms and momentum to ease existing barriers slowed, according to new data from the OECD.

And we have seen that not all leaders understand that beyond the ballot box (the wedding day) lies the harder work of leadership (the marriage). The central idea emerging from conversations around ...

As governments across Southeast Asia respond to public anger over corruption, experts warn that crackdowns could serve as an ...

Abstract: The learned index technique has been widely explored as a strong competitor to traditional indexes. It adopts static learning-based models to fit the distribution of sorted data and locate ...

A new study suggests that the success of clean energy innovation may depend just as heavily on who participates in the ...

That's a stark contrast from U.S. Vice President JD Vance's criticism of European democracy during the previous year's security conference, and his observation then that a schism ...

Despite the remark, President Prabowo, who was also a former army general, reaffirmed his commitment to democracy, noting that Indonesia remains a moderately democratic country and that the system has ...

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 12, 2026 The 2025 Indiana Civic Health Index shows Hoosiers not only are ...

This infographic shows the distribution of countries worldwide according to the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index and the ...

Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a world where democratic institutions are weakening, civic space is shrinking, and corruption is rising—from Europe and the ...

The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures views of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.

Supporters of an Ohio constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access cheer its passage at a watch party in Columbus on Nov. 7, 2023. The state’s voters also defeated a legislatively initiated ...