The fight over President Barack Obama’s proposed reform of US health care is about a lot more than health. The proposition that every one in the world’s wealthiest nation should have access to medical
Ramadan, which began on Aug. 22, offers an opportunity to reflect upon the surge in religious observance and ritual across the Islamic and Arab worlds and what the future might bring. For the last
For much of the 20th century before the 1979 Soviet invasion, Afghanistan was a peaceful country living in harmony with its neighbors. There was a king and a real government, which I witnessed
Swiss politics, usually reassuringly boring for the investors who stash their savings with the country’s secretive banks, have become unusually heated, just as stability becomes an ever more prized
