At the time of his appointment, Gates was the youngest person ever to assume the role of CIA director. In addition, he is the ...

As founder and figurehead, Redford kicked off Sundance in the kind of outfit that had become his trademark: a denim shirt, ...

Laborers used horse-drawn shovels to shape Riverfront Park in 1938 ...

The United States has no better partner, no better friend in the world than Germany.” So spoke U.S. Secretary of State ...

The artist, who has made a practice out of trafficking in "unwanted things," is having his first solo hometown exhibition at ...

Today is Thursday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2025. There are 97 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1957, nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in ...

Valentine Low’s Power and the Palace is a study of how sovereigns and politicians have circled one another for two centuries.

Rising violence and the resurgence of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan have put the Obama administration on defense as the war enters its ninth year. "Until the presid ...

Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, ...

As we described in Foreign Affairs in late January, ungoverning is rare in the history of politics. Authoritarians generally want to take over a state so they can use it, not so they can destroy it.

Casar parked down the road from the entrance, between a Union Pacific yard and a small park. A dozen or so TV producers and ...