Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recently suspended peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a separatist group that wants to claim the southern island of Mindanao as its own...
Patri Friedman, Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about seasteading, the creation of autonomous ocean communities as an alternative to existing political and cultural forms...
Faced with a Russia emboldened by its energy wealth, the two US presidential candidates have shown a similar resolve on how to deal with the country's former Cold War foe...
Republican Sen. John McCain had long promised American voters that he would be the ultimate maverick presidential candidate and run "a respectful campaign...
Cutting edge research and scholarship, artistic accomplishment and exemplary service to society will be celebrated here on Saturday, October 11, as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences officially welcomes its 228th class of Fellows...
AT the turn of the 20th century, toward the end of a brutal and surprisingly difficult victory in the Second Boer War, the people of Britain began to contemplate the possibility that theirs was a nation in decline...
Barack Obama assailed the Republican ticket on Friday for "stoking anger and division'' after a remarkably hot-tempered week that saw searing attacks from John McCain and Sarah Palin at rallies while their supporters shouted "terrorist" and "traitor" and even "off with his head" at the mention of the Democratic candidate's name...
Wells Fargo & Co. is proceeding with plans to acquire Wachovia Corp. for $11.7 billion, a deal that promises to transform the San Francisco institution into one of the nation's largest retail banks, after spurned suitor Citigroup Inc. said it wouldn't pursue additional legal actions to halt the takeover...
Invited to Dartmouth by the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment, retired four-star U.S. Army General John Abizaid will give a public presentation at Dartmouth during his upcoming residency as a Montgomery Fellow at the College...
Last week New Zealand’s major business organisations released a new report designed to promote a wider understanding among New Zealanders of the importance of security of property rights...
