Unlike other professions where you can ease back into the work place, there is an ethical question for women war reporters: do you put yourself in danger once you have a child?

A new study finds that trade-induced economic growth leads to lower fertility and rising incomes.

There are no significant parallels that can be extrapolated from the overthrow in Libya to the unrest and potential for overthrow in Syria.

Egypt's antiquities are among the most adored in the world. How will the country's new bosses supply them?

Twenty years ago, what some saw as Soviet communism's comeback turned out to be its last gasp. Perhaps, then, what's happening in Russia today is not the death of a free society but its long and agonizing birth.

Why the U.S. should not fear China.

Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.

The verbiage deployed by American officials, dutifully transcribed by journo-stenographers at press briefings, sends nearly as loud a message as a laser-guided Hellfire missile slamming into a wedding party: Afghan lives mean nothing.

A decade after the September 11th attacks, it is clearer that terrorists targeted the U.S. for what it represents -- not for any specific actions it took or did not take.

The Vatican has nearly kicked Roy Bourgeois out of the priesthood for supporting women's ordination.

There remains the same need to dispel misconceptions about anarchism, bred of the unholy matrimony between plain ignorance and vile slander.

Don't believe the humility: The mogul's empire is not crumbling.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of analysts, pundits, talking heads and even policy makers in the Western world understand their own world very well but fail to realize that the rest of the world is not like them.

Once an artwork is stolen, what, exactly, does a knowledgeable thief do with it?

In the aftermath of Anders Breivik's terrorist rampage in Norway, a "blame the Jews" theme has emerged: assertions that Breivik was driven by fanatical devotion to Israel.

Turkey has come to understand that, because of Greece, they will never be accepted into the EU. Ankara increasingly views Iran as an ally and trading partner.

Whether American conservatives admit it or not, Anders Breivik was motivated by their hostility to a growingly diverse world.

What's so interesting about Britain is its bipolar news culture: It has the very worst and also the very best of what journalism has to offer.

In the post-September 11th era, which is the bigger threat to fundamentalist Islam: the Pentagon or Mumbai?

The tragedy in Norway stands as a stark rebuttal to the dictum, popular in anti-Islam circles, that "all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims." While the modernization of Islam is an urgent necessity, "Anti-Jihadist" ideology, spread by many bloggers, denies the possibility of such change.