By checking the "black" box on his census form, President Obama chose to stick with an older and cruder single-race classification, a holdover from racially ugly times.

By empowering security organizations such as the Eastern European Security Alliance, the United States can provide a practical safety option for our allies in times of need.

A new book explores the tragic yet mysterioushostile takeover of a school in one of Russia's Caucasus provinces.

The Georgian province of Abkhazia is a possible flashpoint for a new war with Russia.

There are deaths that weigh no more than a feather. Entire peoples who don't count. They have only one right, the right to disappear. They are absent from our concerns and from our television screens, even before the tanks, the bombs, the raids and the landmines reduce them to nothing. The Chechens live in absolute solitude, surrendered to the pleasures of a massacring Russian army.

It is no doubt correct that the family unit in Western society is experiencing trauma, and that the trouble emanates from the challenges of modernity: more cash, more choices, more years of life.

An increase in mixed-race marriages and a series of legal developments may foretell the end of racial discrimination in American public life.

Schools under restructuring in Hawaii partner with outside organizations at a much higher level than schools on the mainland; Hawaii has put in place support mechanisms to facilitate partnerships with these external providers.