When China realized that its technological ambitions were chained by U.S.-controlled helium, it didn’t hold press conferences ...

Sometimes warnings are there for a reason. In this video, we go back to a forbidden magnet fishing spot and uncover shocking items that left us shaken and might explain why no one wants this water ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

The nation’s top economic statistician was fired. Central bank independence is being undermined. The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.

I decided to magnet fish at an abandoned bridge known for being dangerous. The location was difficult and risky, but the potential for hidden finds was worth it. What I pulled up made the trip ...

A new Quinnipiac poll released this week found that more than half of Americans think that democracy isn’t working in the U.S., but “The View” host Alyssa Farah Griffin isn’t sure that’s true.

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

Despite an uncertain path, standing up for your convictions is a “leap of faith” that former President Barack Obama insists is worth making. With such heightened political turmoil today, the question ...

Many believe the United States has been without an actual functioning democracy for quite some time. But there can be no logical or truthful argument over the indisputable fact that right now the ...

After a decade and a half of brutal conflict, the Syrian Civil War ended with Bashar al-Assad’s ouster at the hands of a rebel faction. What began in 2011 as peaceful protests during the Arab Spring ...

The nearly 102-year-old Walt Disney Company is no stranger to being catapulted into America’s culture wars. But the wrangling over “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this month marked a new milestone in the ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...