Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are ...

Mike Hammer is not your average diplomat. Built more like an SEC football coach than a statesman, Hammer sticks out like a sore thumb on his trips across ...

The United States took a decisive step toward democracy with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the time, Black ...

When Stalin wanted to get rid of someone, he didn’t just have them executed with a shot to the back of the head. He attempted ...

It doesn’t appear as though the jump in energy prices has yet had much effect on the labor market, as the economy added 115,000 jobs in April.

The Trump administration is framing its barrage of sanctions announced on April 24, targeting the Hengli Petrochemical ...

Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth.

"We won't be signing off until the world ends," Ted Turner said in 1980, just before the launch of his latest media venture. ...

As Americans age, we deserve the peace of mind that we can find nursing care for our parents or ourselves when we need it.

An assault on Cuba needs excuses for hating it.  But given that any exchanges between the US and Cuba has been blocked out of the news for decades, it’s a ...

The General Strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G.D.H.Cole.

Romania was late to politics which saw parties representing the left and right unite against liberals. But unite they did this week, in what the founder ...