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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the other G7 and EU leaders at Cornwall last weekend.

Continuing UK-EU dispute over Brexit Protocol dominates G7 meeting

Judging from the press commentaries, one might think the G7 leaders met in Cornwall last week primarily to urge British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to cooperate with the EU in resolving the continuing post-Brexit trade disputes between the UK and EU. Following his meeting with President Joe...

Nobel Prize-winning economist William Nordhaus explores ways to frame climate change problems and develop solutions

In his new book, The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World, William Nordhaus says there’s a better way to frame the challenges posed by global warming and...

Working together to fight COVID-19 around the world

Over recent months, the news about COVID-19 has been mostly positive in the U.S. The number of Americans who have gotten vaccinated continues to rise and as a result, the number of COVID cases, as well as the number of deaths, have been vastly reduced. Unfortunately, that is not the case in many...

June 20 is World Refugee Day

By the end of 2019, 79.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations, according to the UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency). Worldwide refugee...

Disputes over history education quickly invoke curricula, and creep into school boards and state legislatures with increasing stakes. Photograph by Harold M. Lambert / Getty

The Fog of History Wars

History is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives, says historian David W. Blight in the June 9 issue of The New Yorker:

Once again, Americans find themselves at war over...

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