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Commentary: The argument over Pelosi as House speaker misses the point

California Democrat Nancy Pelosi is now all but assured of becoming the next speaker of the House of Representatives. In late November, the House...

Lincoln Mitchell

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s nuclear chief and former foreign minister, has warned that Iranians are running out of patience with the European...

President Donald J. Trump, protected from criminal charges while in office, is now facing the prospect of indictment when he becomes a private...

Theresa May has been stomping the length and breadth of the United Kingdom to make the case that her Brexit deal with the European Union is the...

In the “careful what you wish for” stakes, few issues rank higher than the plan for a second referendum by those in the UK hoping for a reversal...

Nicole Barthelemy, the quiet, gracious owner of one of Paris’s premier cheese shops on the Rue de Grenelle, told me this week, with real panic in...