In Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film, Fernanda Torres plays a woman whose family is torn apart by Brazil’s military ...

An apolitical bureaucracy run by public servants who respect the law is one of the greatest achievements a society can attain ...

The trend towards political polarisation is hardly unique to South Korea, but the country’s long-running divisions have been ...

The crisis unfolding in Afghanistan today is not just a repetition of history. It is an amplified version, with even fewer ...

Since the end of World War II, the United States has remained a global power through foreign policy defined by what retired Ambassador Ryan Crocker calls a "three-legged stool" of defense, diplomacy ...

Many younger artists are dreaming up new frontiers for humankind while acknowledging that the future could just as easily be a totalitarian nightmare. Old enough to remember a world without the ...

It also signals the start of filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum’s choice to keep the ensuing horror at arm’s ... more pressing political issues playing out in the Olympic village. Folding that drama ...

Just 45% of 18 to 34-year-old Americans, 32% of continental Europeans, and 29% of fighting-age Britons say they would be willing to take up arms ... political ties, recruiting more broadly and ...