In her latest book ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ the sociologist analyzes what separates democracies from autocracies. She also ...

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President Ronald Reagan famously talked about a “new day in America” as he encouraged the American people to shrug off their ...

The 80th anniversary parade in Moscow was not only a depressing abuse of history, but also a way to show that Russia is far ...

As part of our series on the world that America made after World War II, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Christopher Leonard about the rise of the U.S. defense industry post-1945.

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The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

The White House budget office urged Congress to cancel more than $9 billion in funding for global health and for public radio ...

Fantasy novelist Guy Gavriel Kay, who helped compile Tolkien’s Silmarillion, grapples with the juxtaposition of love and ...

By The Associated Press Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who recently left President Donald Trump’s administration, has blasted the tax cuts and spending plans backed by the president that passed ...

Guys can be notoriously hard to shop for, making Father’s Day a particularly challenging time for gift-givers. We don’t want ...