On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

One of the towering fingers in modern American folk, the extent of Woody Guthrie's songbook has often been the subject of great scrutiny.

A country, by nature, might be conservative and right-leaning because of its vertical values and boundaries, while progressive leftist values exist in society to regulate the excesses of these ...

Steve Bannon, no longer in Donald Trump's inner circle, but no less politically savvy for it, remarked recently,“If we aren't careful, it [Ukraine] w ...

Chinese dictator Chairman Mao shared Stalin’s opinion about actual force being the ultimate political power. In 1927, when he was leading the communist insurgency he pronounced that “Political power ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

Did you know that Joseph Stalin could sing with perfect pitch? Or that he was so scared of his wife that he would hide from her in the bathroom? Did you know that Peter the Great liked to surround ...