One fifth of the world's population today is Muslim, and this vast expanse of humanity may represent the next major "risk region" for contagion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Indeed, in the years immediately ahead, the AIDS pandemic is all but sure to exact a grim toll in a number of...

The newest phase of the global AIDS pandemic is the unfolding of the contagion across the great Islamic expanse.

The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much.

Wearing a veil is not a personal decision for a Muslim woman. The fundamentals of modern civil society are at stake.

At a very basic level, surely it is true that the full-faced veil causes such deep reactions in the West not so much because of its symbolism but because it is extremely impolite.

Sarkozy disregards his critics and sometimes seems to thrive on criticism.

Millions of voters will head to the polls this week for the first phase of what are often called India's second-most important elections -- for a new government in Uttar Pradesh, the country's largest state and home to about one in six of its 1.2 billion citizens. In the drama of Indian democracy, UP has always played a starring role.

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.