To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Though it offers a shorter link between China and Europe, it takes longer. More borders must be crossed. So must the Caspian ...

"Delimitation is a Damocles' sword hanging over southern India," says MK Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, one of India's five southern states, and an arch rival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ...

A wall covered in black and white fliers, the kind easily photocopied, lined the walls of the entrance to the Fullerton ...

A massive increase in solar power generation capacity is already putting Australia on the fast track to a 100 percent renewable energy future. An academic living in cold Canberra retired his gas ...

In a sign of the challenge, the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa was struck on Thursday night by what its governor described as a "massive" Russian drone attack even as the US president talked up ...

Whenever any idea that’s even slightly transformational is proposed, it’s met with a massive scare campaign, writes Graham ...

Maggie Kulyk, a progressive donor and activist in the Atlanta area, has a long list of worries about President Donald Trump: His moves to bypass Congress and swiftly slash the size of government ... a ...

For the first time, Guyana has given its blessing for a tour company to start bringing visitors into what’s left of Jonestown ...