Much has been made of the emerging alliance among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. But the recent strikes on Iran ...

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It’s been a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a right to same-sex marriage. Public acceptance has grown since then ...

Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage legal nationwide. In today’s Q&A, Jim Obergefell explains why that mattered so much to him and his late ...

Peter Ford is The Christian Science Monitor’s International News editor, based in Paris. Prior to his current posting, Peter was the Monitor's global affairs correspondent, based in Paris.

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In his second term, President Donald Trump has unleashed a diplomatic style that jettisons all the norms of traditional ...

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court issued the landmark decision Obergefell v. Hodges, making same-sex marriage a constitutional ...