The totalitarianism of the 21st century is being pioneered in a vast but remote region of western China inaccessible to most outsiders and subject to a media blackout by China’s Communist authorities....
Colleges that have banned hard alcohol say the step has helped to combat some of the most pernicious effects of campus drinking.
They report less consumption, fewer alcohol-induced medical transports,...
The crisis involving migrants fleeing violence in Central America, seeking sanctuary in the United States and overwhelming American immigration courts is real.
The Obama Administration was flummoxed ...
A common refrain in the comments of New York Times readers about the obituary of Dovey Johnson Roundtree was astonishment that they never had heard about the inspiring life of this accomplished Distri...
The FBI’s investigation last autumn into corruption and fraud in men’s college basketball cannot really be called a wake-up call. Not when the problems — big money, flouted rules, sham classes and nev...
Pavel Durov is a reclusive online innovator who has repeatedly come up against the powers that be in Russia. In earlier years, on the social media platform VKontakte, he stood fast against demands fro...
Nicaragua is a volcanic nation, geologically and politically. Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell from po...
The gap between the policies pursued by Donald Trump’s administration and what the President says when he is outside the range of a teleprompter continues to be disconcertingly wide. At a rally in Ohi...
Angola’s new president, João Lourenço, has said one of his highest priorities is to root out the corruption and favouritism that thrived under his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled for 3...
The results of a Tuesday special election in a usually deep-red congressional district are just the latest sign that Republicans’ toxic embrace of Donald Trump is hurting not only the country but thei...