Churches stand like leafless trees in the postmodern landscape. The Western world has largely gotten rid of God. But instead of abandoning religious fervor altogether, today’s society is teeming with ...

Western governments hesitate to take a firm stand against Russian influence in Georgia despite the urgent need for support. Thousands of demonstrators in Tbilisi are ...

Béatrice Acklin Zimmermann is managing director of the think tank Liberethica, the ethical offensive for freedom and the market economy. Ms. Acklin Zimmermann studied Protestant and Catholic theology ...

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It is easy to become dismayed by the scale of suffering in the world – but small acts of hope change people’s lives for the better every day. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. – pictured ...

Beijing’s accelerating military buildup and strategic technological advancements raise urgent concerns for the U.S. and its allies worldwide. Drones in formation of an aircraft carrier and fighter ...

Beijing is slowly but surely expanding its Arctic footprint, largely through cooperation with Moscow. Snow Dragon 2, a Chinese icebreaking research vessel, leaves the port of Nansha to head for the ...

“We’re not protectionist; what we’re doing is very logical,” Indonesia’s president Prabowo Subianto declared in May. He was defending his government’s policies to boost domestic processing of critical ...

Russia’s premier equities market, the Moscow Exchange, soared the day after President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning victory in the United States. On November 6, the index rose more than 2.6 percent, ...

Russia’s 2015 intervention to prop up Syria’s autocrat briefly restored some of its big-power luster, but the Kremlin’s quest is collapsing. Aleppo international airport, Dec. 2, 2024: Armed groups ...