Across the rich world, politicians of the left and the right decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. In May the ...

Discover how the war's outcomes dramatically shifted colonial empires, with Britain emerging as the dominant global power and France losing its foothold in North America and India.

William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

It felt like paddling through soggy cereal. My wife and I were deep within Everglades National Park, struggling to kayak past dense mats of periphyton, a mass of algae, fungi and other organisms.

Jamel Clayton was given seven years, with a judge describing the physical attack as "vicious".

Salt Lake City resident Jim Crane is a month away from celebrating his 100th birthday — and his experiences fighting in the ...

Donald Trump has proved no peacemaker. America’s entry into the Iran conflict has undermined the power of diplomacy.

If we’re fortunate, that will yield academic treatises with titles like “The Empire Tested: America and the World, 2021-2030.

The president’s most important job, as the sole steward of America’s nuclear arsenal, is to prevent nuclear war. And a ...

Min Young-jae has not seen or heard anything about her eldest brother for 75 years. He was 19 and she was only 2 when, during the early days of the Korean War, he was kidnapped to the North.

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?