February 26th marked the 140th anniversary of one of the most consequential events in the history of Western imperialism: the ...

The nationalization of the oil industry in the Islamic Republic of Iran is the manifestation of a clear-cut victory over ...

The rhetoric from the White House (and Mr. Trump’s Truth Social account) signals a new world order that is nasty and brutish and in which might makes right. The U.S.’s retreat from the global ...

Winston Peters, foreign minister in New Zealand’s far-right National Party-led government, sacked the country’s high ...

Russian American writer M. Gessen discusses Trump’s agenda, a possible ceasefire in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and more.

It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

Teaching world history often feels like trying to pour the ocean into a teacup. Its vast scope and complexity can overwhelm both students and educators, reducing the subject to a fragmented parade of ...

Imperialism and totalitarianism really go hand ... from “we pick our battles” to James Carville’s article in The New York Times in which he argued for playing dead — literally for playing ...

The New Zealand ruling elite depicts itself as a benevolent colonial ruler defending the Cook Islands from the alleged ...

Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind ...

British educator Chris Nash first visited China in 2008 as a guest of the BBC and it was "love at first sight." Nash, now the ...