The ratings agency’s decision will have no consequences for the U.S. dollar’s global role, but it highlights the country’s darkening fiscal outlook and governance challenges.

Israel at 75 is facing fundamental choices about its identity. 

The truth is that his tenure as secretary of state was often rocky, and as full of setbacks as acclaim.

After decades of democratic progress, human rights and the rule of law in Mexico are under siege. It would be a grave error for the United States to believe that its only interests in Mexico are trad…

Amid severe economic distress, many Laotians are increasingly undaunted by the fear of repression.