Author acknowledges that consequences of creating the state of Greece ‘still with us’ and that status of modern Greece ‘up ...

A Russian distributor orders booksellers to pull works by well-known authors, in an apparent act of censorship.

Douglas Edelman rose from owning a bar in Kyrgyzstan to winning $7 billion in defense contracts, only to plead guilty this ...

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Former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who rose to prominence during 9/11, passed away on May 29, 2025. Explore ...

Stanley Fischer, a former top policymaker at the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Israel whose thinking was highly influential among generations of economists, has died at the age of 81.

The Nation spoke with the Kenyan novelist, essayist, and playwright—before his death—about his most recent essay collection ...

When we hear about entry drafts in hockey, it's typically a story of 18- and 19-year-old men in the NHL, and 21-24 year-old ...

Duncan Weldon is an economics writer and broadcaster and a former colleague of mine. He’s also a massive economics history ...

People of a certain age will be aware that the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis was, for the world as a whole, the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. The 1962 'Battle of Cuba' was a 'cold battle' in the ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past and charting our dramatic rise from one ...

The New York Times reported that Trump pardoned a man who pleaded guilty to tax crimes after his mother attended a Mar-a-Lago ...