Here's a look at the notion of sending U.S. citizens to prison in a foreign country, why it's likely not legal and some possible legal loopholes.

We are told that religion should remain a "private matter". But for millions of us, our faith is not private: it's personal, yes, but ...

Few European cities have a history as culturally rich as Weimar, once home to Goethe, a giant of world literature It is ...

Despite being the most spoken language in Pakistan, Punjabi lacks official status, while Urdu and English dominate the legal ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

The old letter’s ink has faded over time, but its message has been preserved, thanks to Dave Kithil donating to The Museum in ...

Legally, there were few distinctions between married white women and enslaved women and men in 18th-century America.

In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

which recognised that democracy may itself be illiberal – a truth that has not become less pertinent in the quarter of a century that has passed since he reminded his academic correspondent of it. In ...