O n April 6, 1968, two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a confrontation unfolded at the Tuskegee Institute, the historic land-grant college in eastern Alabama. Twelve members of ...

While British and French troops moved to the alert in the tense Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. last week took a firm stand for moderation. In one of the most unusual gambles in diplomatic history, the ...

Subramaniam Vincent is director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. While it may be fashionable to say that dignity as ...

Political leaders are usually judged by ideology, strategy, and electoral success. Yet sometimes the deeper question is psychological: how does a leader instinctively understand politics itself? In ...