Minutes before hard-hatted dignitaries swung silver-plated sledgehammers onto concrete blocks to ceremonially commence the ...

With national reach, he won the prize in 1993 and was a finalist for it four times while at The Arizona Republic. Some of his ...

The rumors that China’s Xi Jinping has been ousted, or is on the verge of losing power, have drawn the attention of China ...

With the end of the 12 day war, the question of regime change in Iran remains central. There are many scenarios, highlighting different factors and views. Analysts contrast the sweeping 1979 ...

President Donald Trump delivered a positive step on Iran for the U.S. and the rest of the world, Winston writes. So why ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best ...

As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe.

The problem with shows about spies, secret police, quarreling world governments, and times of momentous political flux, is that it’s hard to know who to believe. Kleo indulges this ambiguity by ...

Fast-food restaurants are the tip of the spear of empire, or the last outpost of civilization, depending. The Chicken-Fried, Flame-Broiled Taste of Power originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy ...

A chunk of the Berlin Wall, displayed at Reagan Library, gets cosmetic update Ronald Reagan in 1987 urged the leader of Soviet Union, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' ...

In the face of this, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who took power in 1985, had already initiated a series of political reforms, glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), but ...

He’d gone to Berlin that summer of 1989 and returned to The States with a chunk from the wall in his suitcase. I was appreciative of his generosity.