On the eve of its departure from Haiti after a 13-year stabilization effort, the UN faces accusations that its troops used excessive force to fight gangs, killing innocent bystanders.
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Puerto Rico has focused significant efforts on branding – but at what cost?
A brigade of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala have interrupted their trek north to stay in Mexico and support earthquake recovery efforts.
Seventy-five percent of all abortions in Latin America are illicit. In Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, where abortion is totally illegal, the bans correlate with a generalized failure of the rule of law.
One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation and abroad is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.
Evidence doesn’t support the Trump administration’s claims that Chad failed to share information or that its citizens are an identifiable threat.
Anti-immigrant policies ignore that American ideals like liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness can be traced back to the indigenous pioneers who once moved freely across North America.
An anthropologist tells the story of how Columbus actually came close to falling into historical obscurity, until American hubris got in the way.
As with our politics today, geography and race matter in the US criminal justice system. Should they?
The military can make a big difference right away but humanitarian deployments should generally be rare and brief.
Why did the Spanish state forcefully quash Catalonia’s referendum for independence? It is rooted in the country’s nearly 40-year dictatorship and its transition to democracy.
Almost hidden in the orderly rows of men’s names on the Vietnam War Memorial are those of eight female nurses who died in the conflict.
Generations of Germans have worked to create a positive national identity based on difficult self-reckoning with the Nazi era. The recent election attacks that progress.
From the football field to the library, this roundup of archival stories explores how the First Amendment applies to various aspects of our lives.
In an upcoming case about Wisconsin’s voting districts, the Supreme Court will tackle legal questions that have long gone unanswered.
A scholar from Alabama’s Auburn University at Montgomery explains how Republicans have slowly but utterly taken over Alabama politics, even while squabbling amongst themselves.
What happens when outsiders step in with good intentions? As the crisis in Guatemala shows, it’s complicated.
Kim Jong Un’s regime has already earned millions from the export of arms, missiles, drugs and endangered wildlife products.
Most Americans don’t want the United States to be the world’s policeman. Do the experts agree?
A survey asked Americans what they would do if the Supreme Court started making many unpopular decisions. Here’s what they said.
Many who represent themselves in court fail to make it through the process, have their case dismissed or lose what otherwise would have been a winning case.
Whether they were motivated by enthusiasm or ire toward the candidates, the 2016 election captured the attention of US college and university students nationwide.
Not all who fled Vietnam at the end of the war wanted to be resettled in the US. But those who returned faced an unwelcoming government.
The president threatened North Korea and decried the decimation of the American middle class – but didn’t have much praise for the work of the United Nations.
As Congress takes up the issue of immigration, we turned to our global network of scholars to get their perspective on how points systems work.