Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

It was four years after the storming of the Bastille that the new revolutionary government really established the framework ...

The first dish served to me at The Harcourt Pub in Altrincham, south Manchester, is an expression of protest and geopolitical strife through the cheery medium of fried bread and seafood. On the menu, ...

Former city councilor Michael Flaherty took an agency-issued car on what appeared to be personal trips to Cape Cod, Braintree ...

The media landscape is undergoing a revolution. Traditional journalists who only reported on news – either by investigating or simply relaying it – are becoming less common. Teams, athletes, leagues, ...

The government of Premier François Legault spends a lot of time trying to shape Quebec into a society where the state is ...

Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom—unless you’re French or, in this country, a ...

In 1944, George Orwell wrote that if only the Germans had behaved with ‘ordinary generosity (i.e. by the standards of the ...

LECH Walesa, remember him? He was the Labour union leader who succeeded in forming and leading a broad anti-Communism and ...

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Serbia has lived in a state of limbo – one that cannot be described as either political paralysis or transformation. Since ...

Almost a century since Gibran’s words and exactly 50 years after the start of the country’s civil war, it seems that Lebanon ...