The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been shaping US policy for years. She helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

As the sun was setting on the 20th century, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright proudly declared the United States to be the “indispensable nation,” essential to protecting world order. Just over ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

In my new book, A Climate of Truth, I argue that society radically needs to become more honest. In politics, media and ...

The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this ...

Trump’s actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they’re ...

The president has shattered America’s commitment to promoting democracy and international norms, replacing it with an erratic ...

To decide on the location of the Great Filter (or collection of Lesser Filters), we don’t have a lot of evidence to go on.

A discussion on religious freedom abroad invariably circled back to the present political turmoil in the United States under the second Trump administration.

The administration is invoking an extraordinary national security power, the state secrets privilege, under highly unusual ...