The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West"; as contrasted with the Orient), is a term referring to different nations depending on the context.

First declared in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine began as a bold warning to European empires: the Western Hemisphere was ...

Yet little unites the wider Western world—America, Europe, Japan, Australia, as well as others—economically, certainly compared with the kind of military cooperation that has been established ...

"Today, I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger," Milei said in a special address at the gathering in Davos, Switzerland, according to a translation.

The Western World Is in Denial. I understand why democratic countries are reluctant to fight, but I worry they don’t understand what will happen next. By Veronika Melkozerova.

Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those ...

For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every year or so, for a day or ...

The western world is shutting down. This is a “stop the world” moment. Consider this, the world didn’t stop for the September 11 terrorist attacks even if the stock market closed for about a ...

The post-Western world is coming faster than we think. For the first time in its history, the US lost its coveted AAA credit rating status on Aug. 5. After market hours, ...