Militarized federal encroachments on public life provoke strong, even violent responses — even among those who agree with ...

This week's letters to the editor address '14 steps to tyranny,' removing our education foundation and the impacts of war.

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the word comes from the Arabic ta’rif, or tha ...

The brutal authoritarian rule of colonial Japan is not forgotten by a gracious older woman who was a pioneering actress in ...

Alton’s Civil War memorials, including the GAR cannon and DUV building, preserve the city’s Union heritage and honor local veterans.

What to know The Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp plan to kick off a $1.5 million capital campaign to pay for a new Elmira Civil War Visitor Center.

James Carville warned Democrats are "steamrolling toward a civilized civil war" as divisions deepen along generational and ideological lines, urging unity against Trump.

Most people label that period of time “antebellum”—the decade or two right before the Civil War. The country was a loose coalition of states in the mid-19 th century.

As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries. Along the way, she discovered some of those predictors apply to the ...