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If the vice president and Cabinet decide that the president cannot discharge the powers and duties of his office, they can…
While Donald Trump's election may seem to US voters to present unprecedented questions of legitimacy, such questions…
Fleeing economic collapse, around 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country over the past few years.
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How politicians have won over voters through the art of the comeback throughout history.
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A renamed Brooklyn street celebrates Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a Haitian slave turned president. For centuries his legacy…
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The late Sen. John McCain was an early – and lonely – Republican supporter of action to fight climate change. His challenge…
Author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Aug. 11, both scorned and mirrored his Caribbean origins. At the University of the West…
A scholar raised by leftist San Francisco parents in the 1970s ends up teaching in the heartland, where her students represent…
Qatar's decision to aid Turkey in the face of American sanctions against the country may finally be a snub too far for…
The financial crisis provoked by the lira's fall isn't the true drama in Turkey. The real drama is a democratic…
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With the Trump Administration's abandonment of support for democracy and civil rights abroad, Middle Easterners may…