Last night, President Obama’s State of the Union address included the following passage: "Today, the organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self. Different al-Qaeda affiliat…

More than a month after the deadly bombing at central Bangkok’s Erawan shrine, the Thai authorities have made two arrests in the case, and issued at least seventeen arrest warrants overall. On Monday…

A review by Andrew Nathan in the November/December Foreign Affairs examines two books on poverty reduction in India, home to some 35 percent of the world’s poorest people. The first volume is Poverty…

Chinese tech companies seek to influence surveillance standards at the UN; UN hosts meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on global ICT usage; Russian government and search engine Yandex agree on n…

The stories of five Americans who were awarded the Medal of Honor for making the ultimate sacrifice.