Abeer and Fadi Sobh spend their days seeking food for themselves and their six children. Their family is like so many others in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Beneath its tough-on-crime rhetoric, a troubling mix of superficial understanding and blatant disrespect for human dignity is ...

In his response to my recent letter on the failure of urban public schools, Mr. Manning of Waterbury said I missed one key point, the waning strength of the family unit since the mid-1970s ("Changing ...

Liberation movements face criticism for corruption, rigged elections, and elite enrichment.Economic struggles persist despite ...

By Akihiko Tanaka, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo From Aug. 20 to 22, the 9th Tokyo International Conference on ...

Conflict continues to ravage Sudan, driving over 25.6 million people, 54% of the population, into hunger. Of these, 3.7 million are children aged below the age of five, many of whom are acutely ...

At this year’s Stratford Festival, kings, orphans and even a coffee shop have a message for their neighbors to the south.

Ahmed Abu Qamar, an economic analyst in Gaza, warned of an unprecedented collapse of the Palestinian economy in the Strip, with poverty and unemployment rates reaching “catastrophic” levels and the ...

Irving Kristol, the American ­neo-conservative thinker, said that left-wing solutions tended to compound the problems they ...

In the tiny African nation of Lesotho, clothing manufacturer Tzicc’s business has dried up in the face of tariffs imposed by ...

While investment-led growth may offer quick wins, it is efficiency, innovation, and institutional reform that will determine ...

The war created systems that enabled trafficking in tigers and other animals. We can finally address that legacy and help ...