Across 35 countries, there are some disconnects between how people rate the importance of free expression and how free they feel they actually are.

France spends less of its national income on health care than America, but is by most measures a lot healthier. Its total ...

Countries long associated with emigration, such as Mexico and the Philippines, are now rich enough to have passed their ...

Russia is second on this list, with 4,292 military aircraft. Most of these are with the Air Force, which strengthens its air ...

Little did Sr. Oliva Maria from Co Cavan know that the baby Jorge Mario would grow up to be Pope Francis, the leader of the ...

Pope Francis and Mario Vargas Llosa were unique voices that transcended frontiers. Their deaths offer a sharp reminder of the ...

Argentine priest Guillermo Marcó, a close ally to Pope Francis and his spokesman for years when he was archbishop of Buenos ...

In some countries, including those facing national elections soon, political leaders who've advocated a homegrown style of ...

During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, ...

More than 7 out of 10 Catholics are today in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Only a fifth live in Europe. This is due to ...

What do a colonising plant and a carnivorous worm have in common? Both come from South America and threaten our ecosystems.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.