Take the gun debate to a shared level
The mass shooting in Las Vegas, like similar ones before it, has led to an inevitable rise in calls for more restrictive gun laws. The politics over guns does...
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Can Christians rebuild their own homeland in Iraqi Kurdistan?
Armed with a tiny bit of capital and lots of courage, businessmen are slowly returning to the decimated town of Qaraqosh, home to Iraq’s largest Christian community before it...
Facing an even hotter, drier climate, Jordan testing desert agriculture
Hope in Jordan is taking the form of a cucumber in the desert. In the arid southern desert of Wadi Araba, where scorching temperatures and dust devils leave scant...
As gay-marriage mail survey ramps up, so do Australian frustrations with politics
After more than a decade of political wrangling and failed legislative attempts, Australia is poised for a vote that could see it join the growing club of nations that...
Trump visit to Puerto Rico: a chance to deflect 'Katrina' comparisons
President Trump has been praised for his administration’s response to last month’s hurricanes in Texas and Florida – no small feat. Hurricane Maria left the island in utter devastation,...
Can the Supreme Court define political communities?
The justices could again decline to rule on the common practice of partisan gerrymandering, as they have in the past. Some states let a “citizens commission” draw up districts...
With Wisconsin case, Supreme Court takes up partisan gerrymandering
Unlike with racial gerrymandering, the US Supreme Court has been reluctant to confront partisan gerrymandering in recent years. Not only is partisan gerrymandering perfectly legal to some degree –...
Bangladesh opens doors – and hearts – to fleeing Rohingya
When hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees began fleeing from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks ago, Haroon Roshid and his wife, Khaleda Begum, gave them what little they could:...
For country fans, grappling with attack on ‘the most American of music’
Sunday night Mr. Aldean was playing to thousands of fans at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas strip when a sniper opened fire from the 32nd...
Las Vegas tragedy tests America, but also summons faith and resolve
When she woke up Monday morning, Ali Solino heard her son calling from his crib. “It’s my favorite sound in the world,” she wrote on the New Orleans Moms...
