As of the end of 2016, eight people held as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the world’s poorest half. Just a year earlier...

Lest it be thought that trade—indeed, economics— was the foremost consideration in the British decision to secede from the E.U., the state’...

Frederick Ross Johnson, as CEO of RJR Nabisco, was known “for the fleet of corporate jets that ferried him to celebrity golf events and oth...

In Thailand, Phra Dhammachayo, the head of the Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist Temple—Thailand’s largest—could be heard, as of 2016 at least, exho...

Augustine wrote that Christians are ideally in the world but not of it. The fallen world is not the Christian’s true home. For the 5000 (pl...

With 24 official languages, the E.U. spent about 1 billion euros on translation and interpretation in 2016. The defense that diversity and ...

While he was running for the U.S. presidency in 1968, Richard Nixon told H.R. Haldeman “that they should find a way to secretly ‘monkey wr...

In late December, 2016, as the Chinese government was negotiating a deal to improve relations with the Vatican, Yu Zhengsheng, a senior Com...

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words are moving pictures worth? Add in a script and you have actual words—potentiall...

In India, Ratan Tata was a revered figure, dubbed Mr. Clean, until the end of 2016, by which time serious allegations of financial impropri...

War is hell; everybody knows that. A ruling power of a government intent on depriving civilians of life during a civil-war battle in a majo...

Most delegates in the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 recognized the value of constitutional safeguards against excess democracy, or...

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With the allure of additional profits to be had, Hollywood has been all too willing to torch high-quality brands as if with perfect impuni...