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A demonstration of moral courage occurred two weeks ago in a most unlikely place: the UNESCO Executive Board meeting in Paris. During a contentious vote on the “Occupied Palestine” resolution, Mexico’s Ambassador to UNESCO walked out. Andrés Roemer reportedly decided he could not support a resolution that attempts to expunge thousands of years of Jerusalem’s […]

With just two weeks to go before the election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied in a new nationwide poll. Released early on Monday, the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD)/TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (TIPP) poll says the candidates each have the support of 41 percent of the voters. To be precise, Clinton, the Democratic nominee for

LOS ANGELES — Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness. He was 76. Hayden vaulted into national politics in 1962 as lead author of

Reprinted with permission from Mother Jones. The first warning sign that something new was brewing came in June 2015, as Donald Trump joined the crowded field vying for the Republican presidential nomination. In the extravagant lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, he announced he would build a wall to keep out Mexican criminals

The media already has declared the presidential race over and, in the process, is suppressing voters, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Sunday. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Ms. Conway said the close relationship between some media outlets and the Hillary Clinton campaign has resulted in a host of stories

With polls showing him within striking distance in Utah, independent presidential hopeful Evan McMullin said Sunday that the Republican Party may have done irreparable damage to itself with the nomination of Donald Trump and predicted the conservative movement may need to form a new party after the Nov. 8 election. Mr. McMullin said the GOP

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress withstood for months the political turmoil caused by Donald Trump at the top of their ticket, confident of holding their majorities in the House and Senate despite his unconventional candidacy. For a while it appeared that, with smart campaigns and strong fundraising, their optimism was justified. But Republicans are increasingly

This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. Even as Hillary Clinton appears poised to win easily against a highly erratic candidate with a campaign in meltdown, a sobering reality awaits Democrats on Nov. 9. It seems likely that they will eke out at most a narrow majority in the Senate, but

LAS VEGAS — Jerry Clyde, a Service Employees International Union member, walked his turf under a remorseless sun, rustling up votes for Hillary Clinton last weekend in one of those instant subdivisions of nearly identical stucco homes. “It’s a responsibility for me,” said Clyde, 51, a social worker from Whittier, Calif., who hopes to inspire