Over the centuries, the global order has shifted at regular intervals. With the rise of Third World powers, the post-Cold War ...
ON MARCH 12, 2006, five United States soldiers from the 101st airborne division drank whiskey, plotted a massacre and ...
The chaos we see is not random. It is the direct result of lies—about history, about morality, about the very nature of ...
Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: ...
From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...
The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...
The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...
Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...
March 15 is no ordinary day. A date steeped in history, it has been marked by betrayal, disasters and events that changed the ...
Was it a bar brawl? Archaeologists will never know what killed these two people found near an ancient Roman site.
So, too, was Bab Sharqi, the second-century Roman arch. Fingers and toes crossed that beaten-down Syria will become again ...
Syria's interim government has signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country's oil-rich northeast. The agreement - which includes a ceasefire and the merging of Syrian ...