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Germany's likely next chancellor is being criticized for relying on support from far-right lawmakers to pass a bill to reduce migration into the country.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress faces its most competitive electoral challenge since the end of apartheid in 1994.

For the first time … a major party has nominated a woman for President. Hillary Clinton officially became Democrats’ nominee Tuesday night at the party...

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: Leave the gun, take the baklava; Extreme Makeover: GOP; Who's the Dodo now?

Donald Trump may wish to rely on the record of previous presidents who entered the White House in conflict with their own parties over a major foreign relations issue. But can he find one?

On Wednesday, China unveiled its new leadership lineup for the next five years. "Evidently part of the new era is to leave open the question of successors," says political scientist Brantly Womack.

Across the country, parties are consolidating political power in states and squeezing out the moderate middle. In Montana, that squeeze is changing political representation and whose voice counts.

The Bangladeshi Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, claimed victory Friday in the first elections held since the previous government was toppled in a student-led revolution in 2024.

Daniel talks with freelance journalist Shane Cave who covers business and economics in New Zealand. Cave compares analyzes what's happend in New Zealand in the 10 years since a new political party was voted in and radically changed the way the government there did business. He also talks of how the political changes there are similar to what the Republican Party here wants to do.

To bring us up to date on the state of the Presidential race, Robert Siegel speaks with David Brooks, Senior Editor at the Weekly Standard, and E.J. Dionne, columnist for the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. They talk about the stage of the race now drawing to a close -- the time in-between the primaries and the party conventions, and what to expect as the parties convene in a few weeks.