The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The assault on Enlightenment values is tearing both Europe and America apart.

Like apartheid-era South African whites, today’s Republicans will need to choose between an accommodation with the coming ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an ...

For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and ...

Central to this vision was the establishment of institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. These institutions, alongside widely accepted norms and ...

Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...

These items referred to a sense that one can trust people and society, a sense that people are kind and that the world is becoming a better place. Here, it seems the close community children ...

Those who monitor democracy across the globe had warned that a second Trump term could endanger America’s 240-year experiment with democracy. His opening weeks in office have done nothing to ...

Afghanistan, governed by the Taliban, has been ranked the world's most authoritarian country in the 2024 Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Afghanistan has once again ranked as ...

Just 6.6% of the world’s population now lives in a full democracy, down from 12.5% ten years ago. And a large share of the world’s population—currently two in five people—lives under ...