It’s been 12 years since the first al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners of the post-911 Afghanistan conflict were taken to prison cells in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Denied access to the American legal system by Congress, the nebulous 2001 law that allowed for indefinite...
Following a four-day meeting of party leaders, China’s ruling Communist Party appears set to make changes to an enduring policy that limits most families to a single child, as well as do away with a “guilty because we said so” labor camp system that holds more than...
Every year, there are at least a few hundred people who get tired of one thing or another about America, often taxes, and decide to renounce their citizenship. Reported by the media as nothing more than malcontents and rabble-rousers who don’t know how good they have...
England’s Prince Charles turns 65 on Thursday and has begun filling out paperwork to claim his public pension. The idea may seem strange, since he’s been patiently waiting since the age of three to assume the throne, a stretch of time that now qualifies as the longest...
In Tacloban, security forces engaged in gun battles with armed gangs, while a hungry mob overran a rice warehouse, causing a partial collapse that killed eight people. Five days after Typhoon Haiyan crushed this south Pacific island nation, international relief...
