Nations have been squabbling for years over land claims in the Antarctic, but the area might better be served by declaring it a global commons.
The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art has always been viewed as an odd fit in Medzilzborce, Slovakia, not unlike Warhol himself.
A biographer of the late poet Cecil Day-Lewis turned to an unlikely source for insight into his indiscretions: the poet's widow.
A controversial new law in India, aimed at giving educational and employment preferences to "other backward classes," may only benefit the "creamy layer" of each caste.
Britain's newest prime minister, Gordon Brown, is a dedicated reader of serious books, but intellectuals have not always fared well at 10 Downing Street.
Refugees have been waiting three decades for civil strife in the Western Sahara to end.
Political scientists and liberal reformers want to remove highly charged moral issues to the sidelines, but what is the purpose of politics if not to address fundamental moral questions?
A new era of globlization dawned in December 2001, with the West passing the torch to China and India.
How do our own pasts connect with our larger cultural heritage? Here are 12 ways to respond to that question.
Thomas Jefferson was an enigma to everyone he met. A century and a half after his death, one writer strives to understand, if not the man himself, then at least the world as it knew him.