So, to quote Sir Edmund Hillary after he had reached the summit of Everest, I “have knocked the bastard off”.In my case, the Herculean achievement in question is to have finally read War and ...

Whether in Nazi fascism, Soviet totalitarian communism, or U.S. corporate capitalism, psychiatry has been an enabler of the ...

Today in History for Jan. 5: In A.D. 459, St. Simeon Stylites, who, according to legend, lived at the top of an 18-metre pillar in the Syrian desert non-stop for 36 years, died on it.

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strategically located square kilometres.

Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia ...

Between January and November, more than 2,300 Ukrainian civilians were killed and more than 11,000 were injured, the United ...

Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from ...

Russia launched a sweeping attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Jan. 5. The Kremlin’s latest salvo comprised nine ...

Russian drones have blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in Ukraine's city of Odesa, injuring six people including ...

President Donald Trump engaged Ukraine, Russian leaders throughout 2025 in unprecedented diplomatic push to end the war, ...

NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow on how the White House's Russia rhetoric shifted this year and how it is landing in Moscow.