It turns out a unified government isn't enough to get bills passed.
Ending violence is only a first step. Research from Colombian universities sheds light on the role of education in peace-building.
Those on the receiving end of Jeff Sessions' 'tough on crime' policies are speaking out from behind bars.
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Merkel’s popularity at home and on the global stage continues to grow as she runs for a fourth term as chancellor.
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The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how…
A foreign policy expert takes a look at how the exchange went down.
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A historian who studies Poland witnesses the president’s visit to Warsaw, and casts a skeptical eye at the crowd that…
North and South Korea explained in four questions and answers.
An expert on Islam and democracy examines the threat to the world's largest Muslim majority country.
The 1920s and early ‘30's looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism…
Even Trump has paid his respects to Lincoln as an emblem of unity.
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Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets…