Since the mid-1850's, the Democrats and Republicans have dominated the American political scene. As pervasive as it has become, however, the two-party system is not an inherent part of the federal ...

Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.

Solomon Kahoʻohalahala steadied himself on the double-hulled voyaging canoe called Hōkūleʻa as a 15-foot swell rose and the ...

Donald Trump’s neocolonial foreign policy could invite a surprise Chinese attack on an underprepared American island in the ...

KOROR, Palau — While researching an upcoming trip to Palau, a tiny island nation dotting Micronesia’s western edge, I found endless information about its famed mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and ...

THE PHILIPPINES and Palau have signed an agreement to manage their fisheries more sustainably, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. The parties to the agreement — the Bureau of Fisheries and ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with ...

Just a few neighborhoods are home to the vast majority of San Francisco’s services for the homeless. But city leaders are increasingly calling on San Francisco’s outer neighborhoods to pull ...

the Marshall Islands and Palau. Greenland’s desire for independence is not driven by hostility towards Denmark. We seek cooperation, not conflict. We want partnerships in trade and security with ...

And is widely expected to call a federal election campaign next week. In this bonus episode of “It’s Political,” the Toronto Star’s national columnist Susan Delacourt joins Althia Raj to ...

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Odinga, leader of the Orange Democratic Movement, said Friday’s pact was not a “new political formation” but an agreement that would “help build the country.” ...