For centuries, European powers dominated the globe, controlling empires that stretched across continents and oceans. One of the most astonishing facts in history is that Europe once ruled over 84% of ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

The Marigny de Mandeville family owned and developed the Faubourg Marigny as well as the huge tract on the north shore of the ...

Spain has recently been rising up against mass tourism, with protests in places from Barcelona to the Balearics. But country ...

We still haven’t learned the lesson of 9/11. The problem with searching the world for monsters to destroy is that they follow you home.

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

I have written in the past about the Fourth of July and the Rotary Club of Makati. What is the relationship of the two, you ...

The sheikhs in Hebron have pre-empted Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas by pursuing peace with Israel, while putting a nail in ...

For the first time in almost 20 years, travelers might no longer be required to take off their shoes during security ...

Set to take place August 6-16, the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival has now unveiled its promising lineup. Among the ...