Who would have thought it? There they were, Brazilians, protesting outside football stadiums against their country hosting the World Cup in 2014 —...

The current unrest in Turkey is less of a religious conflict as it is a class-based one.

Exaggerated fear of outside enemies has always been a part of the political landscape of the United States.

North Korean rulers managed to survive only by playing one foreign power off another.

When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock markets plummeted. With...

Can an entire people go mad? Sometimes it certainly seems so.
Images of hundreds of thousands of North Koreans howling with grief over Kim Jong Il's...

It will give most of us a feeling of warm satisfaction to know that Ratko Mladic has finally been arrested in the Serbian village of Lazarevo. Yet...