Joan Didion’s sharp words about the ‘national unity’ discourse spawned by the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. echo in the peace-and-security discourse Israeli policy makers are creating In an article…

 Following an outcry, the European Union and the United Nations froze funding for a project commemorating an Albanian Nazi collaborator in Kosovo. Xhafer Deva was the interior minister of Albania’s…

Over 100 students at a West Virginia public high school staged a walkout Wednesday to protest what they said was their forced attendance at a Christian prayer assembly during the…

A British soccer team that had previously defended its fans’ self-designation as “yids” has for the first time asked they stop. Tottenham Hotspur, a prominent London team with a sizable…

The elite tradition is to send children away at a young age to be educated. But future politicians who suffer this 'privileged abandonment' often turn out as bullies or bumblers.…

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will urge the Group of 20 leading economies to establish a global body that can dispense emergency funds during a health crisis, functioning in a similar…

The very real psychiatric term has become so omnipresent in pop culture that some experts worry it’s losing its meaning. Part of the Memory Issue of The Highlight, our home…

In his message marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the UN chief on Friday called for an enabling environment where “today’s girls become tomorrow’s leading scientists and…

The UN marks World Pulses Day on Thursday, this year celebrating how these nutritious beans, grains and seeds, crucial to so many cuisines worldwide, can empower youth to help achieve sustainable commercial…