George Packer, a staff writer for The Atlantic and award-winning author of several non-fiction books, is one of the most penetrating, persuasive, and important writers in the United States. He is ...

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, with a ceasefire proving to be elusive, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations, ...

Op-ed: Accepting reality means rejecting Trump For the past year, Trump has continuously attempted to undermine the credibility of the 2020 presidential election. Just last week at his rally in Iowa, ...

Miami native Larry Luxner, a veteran journalist and photographer, has reported from more than 100 countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a variety of news ...

With democracy under threat around the world, Americans need to set an example by showing up to vote, restoring order to U.S. politics—and backing countries like Tunisia, which is struggling to ...

In 2020, as the world shut down to insulate against COVID-19, a disturbing side effect of the pandemic began quietly taking root in some corners of the world: democratic backsliding and growing ...

Solar panels produce electricity at Kibbutz Ketura in Israel’s Arava Valley. In December 2019, the Arava Institute joined forces with Watergen, an Israeli company based in Petah Tikva that extracts ...

A message from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, congratulating Somaliland on its independence on June 26, 1960. (Screenshot) Goth is optimistic that the United States will eventually come ...

Nude in an Interior, oil on canvas by Pierre Bonnard, 1935. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. From the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. (© 2024 Artists Rights Society, New York) “I ...

When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the Soviet Union, and Donald Trump was a rising Manhattan real-estate developer. Back then ...

Ivonne A-Baki, one of the most prominent women diplomats in Ecuador’s 200-year history, says women have come a long way since she arrived in Washington as her country’s first female ambassador here 23 ...

The new Vital Voices Global Headquarters for Women’s Leadership at 1509 16th Street NW in Washington, D.C., was inaugurated May 5. (Photo courtesy of Vital Voices) One distinct voice missing from this ...