No matter how well-intentioned, volunteers who may be inexperienced can't solve the entrenched and complex social problems…
Americans' votes in 2020 will likely be a statement on what they think of Trump – rather than a measured choice between…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs the US to confront North Korea, revitalize Japan's economy and boost his standing…
Since #MeToo, the number of women and men who say that they've been sexually assaulted or harassed in recent months…
Only two countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.
Traveling death squads. Sadistic torture techniques. Stolen babies. The US helped it all happen by aiding Argentina's…
A terrorism expert marks up the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, exposing the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy…
President Trump has invoked executive privilege to stymie congressional investigators. Another president, Richard Nixon,…
How can a community decide the direction it should go, if its members cannot even agree on where they are? Two political…
North Korea is a major military threat to the US and its Asian allies, but exactly how powerful are its nuclear weapons?…
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation's rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their…
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers…
About the only thing the Trump administration’s peace plan has going for it is the fact that no one expects it to work.…
Venezuela's most famous political prisoner, freed from house arrest by soldiers who turned against President Maduro,…
Many immigrants come to the United States chasing the 'American dream.' So do immigrant racehorses, who literally…
The Dutch holiday on May 4 that commemorates the country's dead from World War II and after reveals how Dutch policy…
Former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy efforts may have been far more effective than critics have claimed.
Amid all the Mueller report uncertainty, one thing is clear: Donald Trump did some wildly improper things to win the presidency.…
The US indicted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for conspiring to hack into a government computer. But the prosecution…
Examining 302 police reports in Detroit, a new study shows that animal cruelty is tightly connected to human relationships.