For weeks, Mexico has been in turmoil over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed constitutional amendment for judges to be elected by popular vote. Fifty-five thousand judicial employees went on strike as legislators pushed the…

On Sunday, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first far-right party to win a German state election since 1945. The results in two east German Länder sent shockwaves of fear…

Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump’s attempts to interfere in the 2020 election, an effort to comply with the Supreme Court’s dangerous immunity decision from July, holding that presidents…

Businesses need reliable information to make decisions, but practicing journalism can now count as a crime in Hong Kong. Two editors face years in prison after a Hong Kong court convicted them Thursday for publishing…

“As the Fourth Estate, you must stand up for the truth!” a woman urged me earlier this week.  At issue was a cellphone text her elderly mother had received from the office of Sen. Roger…

What if you were told you had a year to live? Life coaches sometimes pose questions like this to help folks figure out what’s truly important to them. But for me, this isn’t a theoretical…

When a group of officers burst into my cell at 3 a.m. on July 28 and told me to get up and get ready in 10 minutes, my first thought was that I was going…

Mpox is spreading. A new strain of this viral disease — which is easier to transmit than older ones and appears to be more deadly — has gripped the Democratic Republic of Congo throughout the…

For over a century, Johnson County residents voted for Republican presidential candidates.    Even during periods of Democrat strength, including Franklin Roosevelt’s landslide victory in 1932 and Lyndon Johnson’s overwhelming triumph in 1964, the county…

It’s rare — miraculously rare — that a drug can have such a pronounced effect that its immediate benefits translate into health care savings for years, even decades. To the wonder drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi,…