“The United States does not view Europe as a battleground between East and West, nor do we see the situation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game. That’s the kind of thinking t...
We all — well, most of us — know that global warming means a higher risk of coastal flooding, particularly in low-lying areas susceptible to increasingly intense storm s...
President Obama visited Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, and the meeting was much like other encounters between presidents and pontiffs: a polite conversation ab...
WASHINGTON — Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer, said of Poland, perilously positioned between Russia and Germany: “If you pitch your tent in the middle of Fifth Aven...
George Santayana famously said, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” But when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, Western leaders can’t seem to decide whi...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court began considering a proposition that will strike many Americans as bizarre: that large, for-profit businesses can refuse on religious groun...
Learning more about the causes of injury and death and recommending policies that might lengthen people’s lives have long been the mission of the public health community...
WASHINGTON — For the record, it’s worth noting that Russia’s swift seizure of Crimea confounds and contradicts one of the hopeful axioms of conventional wisdom.
The pres...
Did anyone believe for a moment that an Army brigadier general was going to go to prison and lose his considerable pension for abusing a subordinate who was his longtime...
Last week, before Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea to Russia, I asked a leading Putinologist, Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution, what the Russ...
