Following the well-known strategy of evoking questions on which agreement can be easily established before broaching the more controversial issues, I began with the following prompt. “I would like to ...

This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. US President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some 11.7 million ...

Centralization was pervasive in colonial Iberian America, with Spanish America experiencing it longer and more intensely than Brazil. Endless rules, norms and regulations within an overwhelming ...

In a few short years, a microscopic blob of cells, clinging to the walls of the mother’s womb, transforms into a thinking, feeling, understanding, questioning, acting individual. It will become ...

A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate ...

The threat of terrorism is growing in three key areas around the world. First, there is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), especially its branch in Afghanistan known as ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) ...

Syria’s plight echoes Iraq’s experience under Saddam Hussein. The collapse of the Assad regime has exposed the vulnerabilities of an overextended state, drawing clear parallels to Iraq’s rapid ...

There was no precedent for an effective international criminal tribunal before the Nuremberg Trials — the trials that prosecuted Nazi war criminals and vital leaders for their crimes in World War II — ...

We are directly appealing to you through this public letter to proactively address the unending torment of Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh based on a policy of Peace Through ...

I am increasingly sure that no one (very few people) has ever really paid attention to US President-Elect Donald Trump in a way that matters. This is nowhere more apparent to me than in the current ...

In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, signaling a shift to coalition governance. Botswana's elections reflected dissatisfaction with the Botswana Democratic Party ...