On the morning of March 4, at the São Bernardo do Campo residence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilians witnessed a...

Throughout history, a foundational divide in American politics has split the federal government. In the early days of the republic,...

As it spreads across the Americas, Zika is greatly affecting politics and development. Learn more about the virus and its impact on...

Since first being elected in 2005, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s famously football-loving president, has been scoring goal after goal. Morales’...

Last November, Hillary Clinton declared that “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” In...

Technology has irrefutably and dramatically transformed the journalism industry in the past 20 years. Access to media has evolved from...

Snapchat, the four-year-old picture messaging app, is having its moment in the 2016 election cycle. While the app has a solid track...

Recently at an MSNBC town hall, moderator Mika Brzezinski asked Donald Trump to identify the unnamed candidate she would go on to...

On July 31, 2009, American journalist Sarah Shourd was hiking in Northern Iraq with friends when she was captured by Iranian soldiers and...

Haben Girma is an attorney and disability rights advocate. She was the first deafblind student to graduate from Harvard Law School and...

Hagai El-Ad is an Israeli human rights activist and currently serves as the director of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for...

In February, President Barack Obama hosted a summit for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at Rancho Mirage, California,...

In a historic ruling this past February, Guatemalan courts convicted a former paramilitary and a retired army officer of committing rape...

With Ban Ki-Moon’s term coming to an end this year, learn more about the process to pick the next Secretary General of the United Nations...

Once a symbol of human ingenuity and power over nature, the 79,000 dams scattered across America’s landscape are now falling into...

It is well known that social media has come to play an irrefutably large role in campaigning and politics. From Hillary Clinton and Jeb...

What happens when a country without legal abortion tells women not to get pregnant? This was the question many asked when government...

February 23 was an important day for New Yorkers, although many did not know it. On this day, the Landmarks Preservation Commission...

On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal...

From an aerial perspective, the City of Providence is distinctively marked by a 20-acre strip of dirt and grass cutting through the city....