I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” ­­— Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Donald Trump slapped a 10% tariff on US imports of UK goods as he set out sweeping trade levies hitting countries across the ...

To put it plainly, Trump’s order is aimed at replacing history with propaganda. Hannah Arendt, in her last public interview, ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in ...

A group of former journalists and other employees of the federal government-funded media company  Voice of America (VOA) filed a complaint in a New York federal court Friday seeking to force the ...

The extent to which former President Barack Obama radically transformed America has yet to be fully understood but it was under his tenure that long-existing safeguards against the use of ...

As Chinese narratives in Indian public discourse raise concerns, Taiwan's crackdown on pro-China influencers underlines the need to proactively counter foreign agendas Listen to Story Taiwan cracks ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt the planned deportation of a Georgetown University scholar arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Monday over ...

On Monday the president displayed the latest sensitive document he managed to lift from the National Archives: the Declaration of Independence. Well, an original copy, anyway. He “requested ...