As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday issued a landmark advisory opinion linking governments’ human rights obligations to their responsibility to address the ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

U.S. imperialism is now being deployed at home. Look to Latin America for clues on what might come next and effective ...

This investigative podcast series takes listeners across Latin America to the scenes of some of the region’s most devastating ...

The Cold War is often portrayed as a great power struggle between the forces of democracy and a spreading communist threat. But what if the conventional story gets it exactly backward? In this episode ...

Reversing China’s rise as the primary economic partner for Peru and South America would be the equivalent of an economic ...

Trump's border policies cut illegal crossings from 62,000 to zero, with encounters dropping to just 95 daily, potentially saving lives and reducing fentanyl trafficking by 50% ...

The struggle between China and the United States for global hegemony will almost certainly be arduous and prolonged. Instead of picking sides, Latin American countries should build a new kind of ...

Lillian Guerra, a professor of history specializing in Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean, shares that perspective. To her, the collection not only preserves the history of the Caribbean but ...

On April 2, the U.S. tore up the trade rulebook it helped create, as the White House implemented sweeping tariffs that redefined how the world’s largest economy does business. Nearly all countries now ...