Independence Day this year will be no different, with a new flag pole on the South Lawn of the White House, a bill signing ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

The bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence began early for many Americans. On a chilly December morning in 1973, a reenactment of the Boston Tea Party, sponsored by the City of Boston, ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Social trust is crucial for capitalism and vibrant democracies. And when those systems weaken, as they are now, it’s calling ...

One of Iran’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities there will turn on their own people to consolidate power ...

Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler called out Democratic Sen. Ed Markey's hypocrisy after he attacked the federal agency for ...

Evan Osnos on how the rise of the ultrarich—and their increasing detachment from reality—could be the downfall of democracy.

The League of Socialist Democrats joins the dozens of political parties, labor unions, and civil society groups that have disbanded since the security law was enacted.

Arguments over Canada’s national symbols, from a new flag in the 1960s to new passports two years ago, reveal how deeply some ...

What does a new democracy look like, feel like, sound like? Well, in Bangladesh, which had a student revolution less than a ...