Iranian-American scholar Reza Aslan speaks to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about nationalism in Iran and why he believes foreign bombing campaigns rarely produce regime change.

Secretary Marco Rubio is focused on integrating human rights within broader national interests, often emphasizing “freedom” and “liberty” over traditional, institutionaliz ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran for decades while violently crushing dissent, was killed early in the attack. In the ...

"Nuclear proliferation, like massacres of civilians, is an appropriate topic for international concern, but unilaterally ...

The Supreme Court is sending Donald Trump’s immunity case back to a lower court in Washington, dimming the prospect of a ...

Cheering in the streets, protests, and uncertainty have dominated the last 24 hours. For Kamyar Enshayan, an Iranian-born ...

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Affordable health care stole the spotlight Tuesday at Northern Kentucky University’s Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement Democracy Square Live Forum, bringing students and faculty together to ...

When heavily armed agents of the federal government arrived in Minneapolis, the people of the Twin Cities responded with surprising strength. In this episode, residents describe what drove them to act ...

Penn State Altoona will offer a livestream of “Dilemmas of Democracy: A Conversation with Ayesha Rascoe” on Tuesday, Jan. 20, from 7 to 8 p.m., in Room 135 of the Hawthorn Building. Rascoe is an award ...

Eileen Higgins won a historic victory in December. She became the first woman ever elected mayor of Miami, as well as its first Democratic mayor since 1997. Although the stakes in the city’s Dec. 9, ...