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. 

Atmospheric rivers are gaining in intensity across California and the western United States. Communities need to adapt to the havoc wrought by this weather phenomenon.

Both China and India aspire for the role, but it is not clear if nations that belong to the group see either of them as a benign leader or their champion

Henry Kissinger, marking his one hundredth birthday, and the Council on Foreign Relations have had a long and substantive affiliation, one that spans the career of the preeminent scholar-practitioner…

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