The Beer Barrel

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, center, prayed recently with members of a peace council looking for an end to the war.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Talks to end the war in Afghanistan involve extensive, face-to-face discussions with Taliban commanders from the highest levels of the group’s leadership, who are secretly leaving their sanctuaries...

Consequences of misinterpreting the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution

Cost

Births to illegal alien mothers are adding more to the U.S. population each year than did immigration from all sources in an average year prior to 1965.
The Urban Institute estimates the cost of educating illegal alien children in the nation’s seven...

Societies come together slowly, but can fall apart quickly, say researchers who applied the tools of evolutionary biologists to an anthropological debate.

Using archaeological records and linguistic analyses rather than fossils and genes, they created an evolutionary tree of political forms once found in Pacific islands.

The study, published...

By IAN AUSTEN

BELLEVILLE, Ontario — In April, Canadians reacted...