Mahmoud Abbas, the man who exit polls said overwhelmingly won Sunday's Palestinian presidential election, is a demonstrated pragmatist who opposes violence but who can still be expected to drive hard ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury said this week his ideal successor should be someone who “likes reading ...

On May 8, James McPherson and G. Edward White joined moderator Brad Snyder for the second lecture in the Supreme Court Historical Society’s Leon Silverman Lecture series, hosted by Scott Harris, the ...

Perhaps the most striking feature of Joe Biden’s speech in Springfield today was his description of Obama as a “clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done”. This is certainly different from the ...

This article is part of a series of tributes on the career of Justice Stephen Breyer. Brianne Gorod is chief counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center. She clerked for Breyer during the 2008 ...

Xi Jinping’s new right-hand man, Li Qiang, has shown two sides to his personality over his career. Mr. Li, whom Mr. Xi appointed last month as China’s new No. 2, is known inside the country as a ...