The Space Race is history. Now, the US is racing China over AI, laying out its strategy in a combative new action plan.

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history ...

Russia has officially ended a 30-year-old military cooperation agreement with Germany, marking a major turning point in ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to strengthen their defenses against any Russian attack.

Nothing scared Tom Lehrer more than someone from the government who wanted to fix the world. He knew—because he was one, ...

Steintorwall located right next to Hamburg's central train station. Guests at a Turkish snack shop must shuffle their chairs ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

Who would have thought that a generation after the collapse of communism, freedom of speech would become controversial?

But both conceits — a world economic order that isolates America and a liberal order that continues on without us — are ...

Germany’s push to rearm in response to mounting Russian aggression in Europe will see its annual defense budget double to as much as €162 billion ($189 billion) within four years.  That annual tally ...