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When Harold Macmillan became Britain’s prime minister in 1957, a reporter asked him what could blow his government off course. “Events, dear boy,” Mac...

Despite mounting global opposition, China remains undeterred in its ongoing human rights abuses. The U.S. is increasing economic pressure, but to no a...

After two decades of war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has abundant justification for withdrawing all U.S. troops by Sept. 11. Yet his decision ...

As more Americans roll up their sleeves for a potentially life-saving vaccination, we are called by moral imperative and social justice concern to ref...

Like much of Joe Biden’s presidency to date, the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan he laid out last Wednesday is remarkably ambitious. Rightly so. Ame...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Mark Schmidt, mostly out of necessity, has always embraced traveling outside of traditional bounds in recruiting. He’s also ne...

By the mid-1800s, the brook trout populations native to the eastern streams of the United States were under duress from overfishing and heavy logging,...

The U.S. is set to recover from the pandemic-induced recession faster than other rich countries thanks to its successful vaccination effort and copiou...

House Democrats are reportedly pressing President Joe Biden to reverse U.S. policy on Cuba once again, returning to the detente that prevailed before ...

A crisis is a terrible thing to create. This, nonetheless, is what President Joe Biden has done at the southern border. His rhetoric during the campai...

When Joe Biden was running for president, he was asked if — unlike then-President Donald Trump — he would punish senior Saudi leaders for the 2018 mur...

In his push to combat climate change, President Joe Biden has vowed to take action to protect the Amazon rainforest. That means getting Brazil’s popul...

On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. That’s under a d...

The U.S. needs a national population strategy. Falling immigration is combining with a decline in fertility to put us in danger of joining the club of...

ASSE International Student Exchange Programs, in cooperation with community high schools, is looking for local families to host boys and girls ages 15...

More than 1,000 law enforcement officers swept through Hong Kong on Jan. 6, arresting 53 residents under Beijing’s new national security law. Those de...

Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional. Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it ...

China and 14 other Asian-Pacific nations have signed a massive free trade agreement — the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. The pact covers...

A twisty, narrow way in the cramped heart of Vienna’s oldest quarter, a busy street in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran and remote woods in Nigeria s...

Ten years ago, a general pessimism began to set in among some pundits and technologists who convinced themselves that America can’t do big things anym...