With the terms that Russia presented this week, Vladimir Putin made it clear that he seeks Ukraine's surrender — not a peace deal. If Putin's terms are implemented, the Ukrainian nation would cease to ...

The Treaty of Trianon, signed on 4 June 1920 at the Grand Trianon Palace in Versailles, is one of the most consequential and controversial peace treaties in European history. It formally ended World ...

Despite the Peace Treaty of Versailles stating, "the construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Germany," significantly restricting the ...

The principle of checks and balances is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.

News / Nation & World America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s ...

President Donald Trump in his first 100 days tested that system like rarely before, signing dozens of executive orders, closing or sharply reducing government agencies funded by Congress, and ...

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Now for the 150th anniversary of Buchan’s birth, Professor Murray Pittock of the University of Glasgow will paint a fascinating picture of a Scot who wasn’t just a literary legend but of a man ...

John Maynard Keynes is often credited with presciently criticizing the harsh anti-German measures of the Treaty of Versailles. But, it turns out that Keynes was. ... The Economic Consequences of the ...

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian ...

While the rest of the world went through Versailles, Manchuria, the Reichstag fire, Spain, Ethiopia and a World War, Mossadegh kept hammering away at his single note. Nobody in the West heard him ...