Washington does have a say in the choice of president. The 23rd Amendment, ratified in 1961, gives it the same number of ...

An obvious plot offers itself to the deft diplomat: could Europe, the continental home of the Nobel prizes, dangle the ...

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Nick Cherney, a 43-year-old asset manager from the state of Colorado, stands before a bare slope at Las Leñas, a ski resort ...

When Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan lawyer and journalist, was arrested in Tanzania in May, she says she was held incommunicado, ...

The overthrow in December last year of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s dictator, brought a fleeting sense of unity to a country ...

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IN RECENT years China’s economy has obeyed a three-act dramatic structure, recognisable to any playwright. Growth starts the ...

The rules of Oceania in George Orwell’s “1984” were clear: “Not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most ...