Secret meetings. A mysterious informant. And a cover-up that reached the highest levels of U.S. government. This is the full story of how Watergate ended a presidency.

From Smoot-Hawley in 1930 to Nixon's gold shock in 1971 and Trump's tariffs in 2025, US economic shocks have repeatedly reshaped the global economic order ...

Phantasmagorical policy promises, TV meltdowns, gonzo journalists … political campaigns were once the stuff of passion and high drama. We asked 10 experts to nominate their favourite book about the ...

The eight-year-old at LST Leung Kau Kui Primary School (Branch) says this book is not simple, but can teach you about history.

The US is the most irresponsible superpower the world has seen in peacetime, but trying to fight it politically and economically will end up damaging you more than Uncle Sam.

Both Trump and Nixon shocked the world with the same intent: devalue dollar, force Yuan to appreciate in value, and reduce ...

By seeking to impose his rules on the rest of the world, Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of his predecessors in the ...

Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs have hammered financial markets, prompted an outcry from world leaders, and raised the ...

Wholesale inflation unexpectedly declined in March as a sharp drop in the price of energy drove prices paid by businesses lower, the Labor Department said on Friday. The monthly decline in the ...

On May 31, 1976, as Reagan continued his insurgent run for the GOP nomination against a sitting president, the New York Times ran a photo of him at the top of the front page, waving astride a horse.

Once a floating stage for diplomacy and history-making decisions, the USS Sequoia welcomed back some of its former crew ...