The Democratic Party has beenseparating into two different tribes with alliances to either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week.

When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and...

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons.

The Transitional National Council (TNC) has pledged to move rapidly to elections, but there are still many outstanding questions about control of the entire country, the ability to manage fractious tribes, how elections would take place, armed citizens, recalcitrant Gadhafi family members. In some ways, getting Gadhafi was simpler than rebuilding the country he terrorized for so long.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

Libya, with no history of unity across its tribes and no record of democracy or legitimate government by self-rule, may well flounder and be the scene of a new dictator, a fundamentalist takeover or anarchy. But this has played out in a way that gives a great chance of success, at a lower cost to the United States, than anyone might have imagined.

Hay's mission was to establish civil administration as the British took control of Iraq from Ottoman authorities.

Since 1831, when Chief Justice Marshall described the relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government as "nations within a nation," as "domestic dependent nations," and as "that of a ward to his guardian," Indian tribes have struggled to define and assert their sovereignty. Their struggle has been blown by...