British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in his address to the U.S. Congress this week, “Past British prime ministers have travelled to this Capitol building in times of war to talk of war. I come now to talk of new…

State legislatures are grappling with the tricky balance between security and civil liberties. Last week, Maine became the first state to reject a federal law mandating new standards for driver’s licenses. While libertarians, privacy advocates, and a majority of legislators…

RUSSIA — In a new campaign to increase adoption of its estimated 700,000 orphans, the Russian government this month started airing national TV advertisements and launched a website with 180,000 children searchable by sex, age, hair color and eye color….