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Though its founding ideals are threatened, the US has the capacity for renewal

There is still no lasting peace deal in the Persian Gulf, but energy-hungry Asia is already drawing energy lessons from four months of war: it needs bigger buffers, a greater diversity of fossil-fuel suppliers, and a better mix of power sources overall.

China’s coast guard said a task group led by the CCGS Xiushan vessel replaced the team headed by CCGS Daishan on Saturday to continue law-enforcement patrols in waters east of Taiwan.

Every modern US president gets a physical totem of his tenure. What can they teach us about America’s struggle to remember itself?

In 1776, visions of liberty and justice were fraught with compromise, conflict and contradiction. Today, the founders’ words still shape national identity

There are some who fear not, but I am optimistic. The students I meet are interested in defending their Constitution

Artists, thinkers and leaders from the US and beyond pick the person they think deserves to be honoured, from Abraham Lincoln to Dorothy Parker

The final budget showdown of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency is already gearing up to be France’s highest-stakes fiscal clash of the decade so far.

Editor’s Note: Few rivalries in American history have been as consequential — or as personal — as the one between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The two men could hardly have been more different. Adams, the stocky and combative Massachusetts lawyer, was blunt to a fault and quick to suspicion. Jef

Iranians flock to week-long funeral rites for Khamenei Reuters