In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

Vladimir Putin once had police raid a cinema showing a film for breaching a very specific law. Putin has never been a leader to be far away from headlines, shown most recently by his ongoing public ...

1902 — American mechanical engineer Willis Carrier designed the schematics for what would become the first modern air conditioning system while trying to solve a humidity problem at Sackett & Wilhelms ...

Democratic members of the House praised New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani following a closed-door breakfast he ...

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already ...

Your message to His Holiness Pope Leo, “Holy Father…We are sinking,” was both timely and apropos. On your next visit to the ...

It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on Ottoman Turkish music, Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished musician and a respected academic who has taught at elite univer ...

Understanding communism requires looking squarely at Marx himself. In him, we find the violent, exploitative, self-centred ...

The war in Ukraine isn’t just about borders. It’s about how democracies remember, reckon, and resist. If we fail Ukraine, we ...

Jews in the West are facing a gradually unfolding witch hunt, spurred by fanatics and zealots no less venomous than the Puritans who drove the Salem Witch Trials.