History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Some readers may be surprised to learn that, as an official job title, “czar” is as new to the U.S. as it is to Canada, ...

China and America are also waging a bitter battle of ideas. China defends authoritarianism, whereas America, at least until ...

The European Union’s (EU) foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said “any quick fix” in forging a peace agreement between Ukraine ...

The Kremin has been actively promoting the idea of a new Yalta agreement, that new lines in the sand must be drawn for modern Russia.

With construction starting in 1981, tens of thousands of workers spent years building the world's longest single rail system ...

MAGA pillars such as Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer have been raising alarms over Elon Musk's blurring of public and personal ...

Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, allowing him to be dominated by his German-born wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...