On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

A decadeslong history of violent conflict is among the reasons that countries in the region are opposed to providing a haven for the war-weary Gazans.

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government ...

The unprecedented pause and potential elimination of many U.S. foreign assistance programs, announced in President Trump’s ...

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

I took a seat near the back. It hit me that the last time I got called for jury duty, it was in the old courthouse, where an assistant to the clerk of the court kept things rolling with banter that ...