Trump’s vindictive political purging puts America’s democracy at risk

The Nigerian central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee is supposed to meet March 19 and 20. The panel has kept the main lending rate at a record high of 14 percent since July 2016, and easing could help to support the economy as it recovers after a contraction in 2016. But the committee may fail to even …

Given longstanding political conflict over the issue, many lawmakers in both parties anticipate the push for new laws will likely fall apart as so many others have in the aftermath of mass shootings. If that is the outcome, the determined high school students and their allies who have helped drive the debate to …

Artistic hairstyles were banned or criminalised in school and in church. By enforcing these rules, the missionaries were able to successfully sexualise hair and use it as a tool of control and punishment in a way that Africans had never done. Such historical understandings expose the political significance …

There’s little doubt about the result of this weekend’s presidential election in Russia. But investors are preparing for less predictable outcomes in a slew of ballots looming in emerging markets from Brazil to Indonesia — just as they cope with an historic withdrawal of liquidity.

The annual meetings of China’s legislature and political advisory body provided executives from companies including Tencent Holdings Ltd. and automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. with a platform to lobby for policies and show their support of government initiatives. Here’s where corporate …

Add the failed coup of 2016, and the various conflicts “are feeding into the narrative that Erdogan is besieged by enemies within and outside, like Abdulhamid,” said Oner Bucukcu, a political analyst at Afyon Kocatepe University in central Turkey. The sultan was forced to cede imperial territory in eastern …

… the prospects for a meeting between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, to the runoff election campaigns in Texas Congressional Districts 2 and 7 — Houston Matters’ political experts discuss the latest national, state, and local political storieswith an eye for how they might affect Houston and Texas.