Back in 411 BC, the Greek poet and playwright, Aristophanes, wrote Lysistrata, a comedy about a woman who rallies others in a unique plan to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. She ...

Gaetz, whose nomination requires Senate approval, resigned from his seat in the US House of Representatives in light of the ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

In its latest report card, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the country’s aging infrastructure a dismal C-.

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Staten Island, a borough of some 500,000 people connected to Manhattan by ferry and to Brooklyn by bridge, is almost entirely ...

Check out the electoral map. It is a pretty simple exercise to see that some large swaths of the country did not succumb to ...

The Kremlin is attempting to dictate the terms of any potential "peace" negotiations with Ukraine before Donald Trump's ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold ...