Big changes are underway in Taiwan. Earlier this year, the country’s political landscape was significantly reshaped, as Tsai Ing-wen, the...

India has been rocked by the recent arrest of two students on colonial-era sedition charges for their involvement in protests against the...

“A good diplomat should be able to tell you to go to hell and make you want to get there right away.” For Chas Freeman, former US...

Martin O’Malley’s recent exit from the Democratic primary after a disappointing showing in the Iowa Caucus failed to garner much...

Zika has entered the American consciousness in much the same way Ebola did: with a melodramatic flourish and a twinge of impish paranoia....

Every year, the front three or four rows of the Dolby Theater, the permanent home of the Academy Awards, are reserved for nominees, past...

The figure of the political outsider has never been hotter in American politics, a trend that predictably corresponds with the longest...

Erratic! Dangerous! Brainwashed! Theocratic! Whichever epithet is ascribed to North Korea and its people, the common image cast of the...

Since the start of 2016, ISIL has fought a sophisticated, multi-front battle for Libyan oil industry infrastructure from its stronghold...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively,” estimating that there are approximately 4...

Long before 31 governors declared that their states would refuse to accept Syrian refugees, some local pockets in the United States had...

“It’s not done…Hillary Clinton will always be there for you.” With these words, Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of...

In December of 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the New Year would bring an end to restrictions on women in the US...

Politics, it has long been said, is sports for nerds. Debates and primaries are the big games, with political junkies quick to look up...

In no other state is the price of truth as high as it is in Veracruz. With a record number of 16 journalists murdered since 2010, the...

Apart from its romanticization in The West Wing, political speechwriting in the United States gets little public attention. The ghost...

As Republicans and Democrats ramp up for more primary contests this week, one has everyone biting their nails: The Nevada caucuses are...

On February 13, 2016, the United States legal realm lost an influential and revered icon. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s...

Carly Fiorina’s position as a conservative woman and relative outsider in the Republican presidential primary offered the GOP an enticing...

If a man’s career represents his life story, Ambassador Chas Freeman’s tells a tale of success, excitement, and — not surprisingly —...