Commentary and Analysis

Independents who lean toward neither party could play a decisive role in the 2024 presidential election.

The hunt for the key battery component is only the beginning of the story.

Large majorities of Democratic and Independent foreign policy elites say they are more concerned about internal threats than external ones.

While many PFAS chemicals are unregulated worldwide, more countries are acting to limit them, since they have been found in soil, water, and even people’s bloodstreams.

New Council-Ipsos polling reveals there is little common ground to be found between the right and left when it comes to immigration policy solutions.

Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast joins VOA to unpack the recent protests against Israel's war in Gaza sweeping college campuses.

The eventual extraction from Wyoming’s Halleck Creek site will be much smaller than the reported 2.34 billion tonnes.

"A lack of confidence can lead to restraint out of fear, rather than restraint as a principled position," Paul Poast writes.

As of 2021, China owned less than 1% of all foreign-held land in the U.S. Canada, by contrast, held more than the entire area of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

The United Nations has been grappling with two global conflicts that it has so far been unable to deescalate – the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.