Elizabeth Ross

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's opponents are seizing on the opportunity to criticize her policies towards migrants and refugees in the wake of the Christmas market attack in Berlin.

A long period of stability, freedom, and prosperity is being threatened in Poland because of a political crisis.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the latest target for criticism from President-elect Donald Trump about defense spending.

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to change years of U.S. policy towards Israel. What happens if he delivers on those promises?

There is a fascinating conversation taking place in the literary world right now, which gets to the heart of imaginative freedom and cultural appropriation. 

Our memories may be powerful forces in our lives, but a new book questions much of what we think we understand about them.  

Since WWII, the U.S. has seen itself as a keeper and defender of international order and peace. With the election of Donald Trump as president, is America about to make a U-turn?

Russian state media has used the forthcoming U.S. election as an opportunity to take a swipe at the American democratic process.

Some of the rhetoric in the U.S. election campaign echoes China's negative opinions about American democracy.

For better or worse, the U.S. has an outsized influence in the Middle East. Here's how the region is thinking about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. 

The drama of the U.S presidential election may be boosting revenues for betting companies in the U.K., but it is not just the gamblers who are interested in the outcome.  

There has been lots of fierce rhetoric about Mexico this election season, but ordinary Mexicans have a great deal to say about their own interests in the results of the U.S. election.

In the run-up to Election Day, we’re reporting on how the presidential race is viewed abroad. First up: Some thoughts from our neighbor to the north.

French authorities have started the process of destroying the shacks and tents that make up an informal refugee camp called the "Jungle" in Calais, France. 

Plans by a large chain of private Indian colleges to expand into the U.S. have not gone over well in Massachusetts. The state's attorney general, Maura Healey, weighs in here. 

A Harvard freshman who is on a mission to help homeless women improve their menstrual hygiene also wants to confront what she considers a widespread stigma about periods.

Could America's biggest innovation challenge be our failure to innovate? We have five problems just waiting to trip up the next president. 

A compelling new book sheds light on an Italian Renaissance duke who may have been the first man of color in Europe to serve as a head of state.

A new documentary explores the devastating human cost of the U.S.-Mexico drug war, and the long and sometimes deadly pursuit of justice.

The next president will confront a world being radically reshaped by new innovations. What are the cutting edge technologies just waiting to trip her or him up?