People who’ve fled authoritarianism in Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, are what make America great.
Will the real-estate tycoon really be disastrous for America’s international relations?
Now that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has conceded the race for president of the United States, and President-elect Donald Trump has made his acceptance speech, a look back at an emotional rollercoaster of a night
Americans weren’t the only ones watching election day closely.
Despite the seeming propaganda value of the campaign, the group has been strangely silent about it—until recently.
International election observers assess the state of U.S. politics.
In Afghanistan, I saw the meaning of democracy promotion, and its discontents.
Snapshots of human impact on the landscape in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada
Can empathy for refugees be taught?
The single most important question in this campaign: Which candidate is better equipped to manage the North Korean threat without triggering catastrophe?
A scholar of U.S. foreign policy explains why the 2016 race could be the most consequential election—anywhere—since the 1930s.
A discussion on the sources of Russian conduct
The country’s cherished universities are in turmoil over whether their European and foreign professors and students will be able to remain once its membership in the European Union is over.
That question haunted this reader: When I read Olga Khazan’s “A Diary of Toxic Love,”…
Drug rehabilitation in the Philippines, protests in Turkey, surfing in Ireland, the new World Series champion Chicago Cubs, and much more.
As ISIS faces defeat in Mosul, its leader breaks a long silence to urge a fight to the death.
Some politicians were tormenting the establishment well before the Donald made it trendy.
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
Getty Images photographer Mario Tama recently spent several days accompanying NASA scientists making 12-hour research flights over West Antarctica.
A court derails the prime minister's plans—for now.
National Geographic Magazine’s annual photo contest is still under way, but the deadline for submissions is coming up on Friday.