In the mid-19th century, Germany was a patchwork of independent kingdoms, duchies, and principalities bound loosely under the German Confederation. Within a few decades, this fractured landscape ...

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a system to prevent anyone else from doing so.

Kratom addiction is on the rise in Philly, as powerful extracts sold as "7-OH" in smoke shops simulate the effects of opioids ...

On ,22 January 2023, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland during an ...

Many column inches have been dedicated to dissecting the “great power rivalry” currently playing out between China and the U.S. But what makes a power “great” in the realm of international relations?

Though never ordained, Blessed Edmund Bojanowski devoted his life to the poor, the sick, and the young — founding four religious congregations to carry on his mission of Catholic charity.

On this day in 1704, Gibraltar was surrendered to the Anglo-Dutch fleet. 321 years later, Eliot Wilson looks at what that ...

The Weimar physician advocated for a more fluid understanding of sexuality and gender—a pioneering idea that was erased by the rise of Nazism.

Whether it’s the Louvre theft that opens up the acclaimed series Lupin or the real-life theft of multiple paintings at the ...

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge. Lea Carpenter is a novelist, ...

Research links 19th-century land program to sharp rise in Native American mortality by Stanford University edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...