Over the past generation, dramatic and biologically unnatural imbalances between the number of baby boys and baby girls have emerged in many Asian societies. The problem of "missing girls"--literally tens of millions of them--is painfully evident in China and India today, but it also characterizes other Asian populations beyond these...

Rocked by scandal and divided in the wake of contentious debates over Iraq, the United Nations faces its most critical hour at a time when many around the world would like it to be an alternative to American power. In his new book, The Future of the United...

Israel is the only UN member state that originated from a UN resolution, the only state that has had its right to exist questioned by another UN resolution, and the only member state that is ineligible for membership in the Security Council and other UN bodies. Only one-tenth of 1...