These powerful political novels from the past century—spanning countries and contexts—offer fresh insights into the urgent ...

Today in History for Oct. 27: In 1746, William Tennent, a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian, obtained a charter for the College of New Jersey, later to be called Princeton University. He had ...

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has dismissed suggestions that Barbados opening its borders to full freedom of movement in ...

Financier Bradford M. Freeman, long-ago graduate of Fargo Central High School, gives massive gift to his alma mater.

Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

Until 1975, Latinos’ right to vote was not explicitly protected by the law. In his twenties and thirties, Velásquez mobilized ...

In the United States, President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to exclude immigrants from census data—plus the gerrymandering that has increasingly distorted district representation—show that the ...

Jamaica’s constitutional reform will achieve nothing if it continues to indulge the politics of resentment rather than ...

It has been almost two years since the Government announced in the Throne Speech that it would pursue full membership of ...

HINT: This country’s flag also featured its name, so we’ve blurred it. This country’s name is said to have come from ...

László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels ...

Today our Taiwanese friends in Belize celebrate their Double Ten, the 114th Anniversary of their national day. Double Ten Day ...