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In the midst of my Practical Ethics class last month, several students stood up and walked out. They were joining hundreds of others in a protest led by the …

People, aren’t we better than this? Have we really become the Republic of Fear? Listening to Donald Trump, you’d certainly think so. His proposal to ban …

The New Hampshire presidential primary vote usually breaks late. This time, not unusually, it will break a few candidates. Eight weeks before the Feb. 9 …

The Republican presidential candidates’ responses to President Barack Obama’s Dec. 6 speech on his strategy to defeat the Islamic State group were …

Tony Seba, a Stanford University expert on renewable energy, made headlines at last week’s climate-change conference in Paris with an optimistic shrug. …

Even as negotiators were completing a new global accord on climate change last week, a lung-burning haze choked two major world capitals, infuriating residents …

North Korea appears to have simultaneously shut down its political and cultural interchange events with two of its neighbors, South Korea and China, over the …

Practices of fraudulent stock trading are still rampant although local regulators pledged to reinforce their scrutiny of alleged perpetrators of financial …

There is a saying that China will grow old before she grows rich. The reality is that China may go gray before she goes green. Anyone living in Beijing today …

Europe has been shocked and outraged by Donald Trump’s call to exclude Muslims from migration to the U.S. A petition to have him banned from the U.K. gained …