The UN Security Council ruptured over Iraq because its legalist structure could not overcome friction among its member nations.
There seems to be an increasing divide between America and Europe over how to deal with the world's problems.
Latin American political power has been shifting to the local level, but undermining the national political parties.
Two hundred years ago, amid a dramatic clash of great principles and great men in the early Republic, Marbury v. Madison established the doctrine of judicial review. The case and its implications are still hotly debated today.
Cinderella has been remade to fit the sensibilities of many different times...even our own.
Americans' own patriotism often makes them blind to the nationalism of other nations.
Scientists are discovering new ways to boost the brain's natural abilities, but ethicists are concerned.
How much did James Watson and Francis Crick rely on Rosalind Franklin’s 1953 x-ray photographs to fashion their model of DNA’s double helix structure?
Forced sterilization of imbeciles by U.S. states was once affirmed by the Supreme Court, but the science behind the practice has been shown to be flawed.
Scoring doctors' cardiology success seemed like a good idea, until truly sick patients began being turned away.