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It’s time to speak plainly about the deadly effects of global warming—and their unjust impact across racial lines.

In 1968, officials faced purges and exile.

China’s quest for rejuvenation dates back more than a century.

The French president has charted a new kind of centrism in Europe.

The British KGB double agent was a forerunner of today’s radicalized Western jihadis.

Bob Gersony was a mostly anonymous U.S. diplomat—and his country’s best model for creating change in the world.

The United States’ human rights story started less than 50 years ago with the extraordinary efforts of one president—and could end this November with the re-election of another.

Beijing is doubling down on its plan to keep migrants out of big cities.

The case of fracking in Pennsylvania shows that if experts and fossil fuel industry leaders can cooperate, innovation is possible.

The Central American country has become a transit zone for drug traffickers and the center of a biofuel boom. Dispossessed indigenous groups are paying the price.

Breaking up monopolies was the first step in fighting Hitler.

In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia.