During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a weapon so extreme it sounds fictional: launching nuclear warheads into low Earth orbit, then de-orbiting them onto the United States with almost no ...

Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.

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To Lam, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, will also become president of the nation. His new stature comes with new risks ...

The return of Ueno Zoo’s last giant pandas underscores how an animal became a diplomatic symbol — and what happens when that symbol is withdrawn.

Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has defended his investigations of Donald Trump at a congressional ...

Estonia is a hotbed of healthcare technology innovation, harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and genomics. Its healthtech industry is targeting the UK and Europe for collaboration and market ...

The defeat of Nazi Germany secured Soviet survival but not relief from fear, repression, or sacrifice. This documentary examines what followed victory in 1945, from the expansion of Soviet power into ...

Writers often try to gild their tawdry times or dignify their flawed leaders with lofty literary analogies — notably, America as the New Jerusalem; Lincoln as Moses leading his people through the ...

I n a 1988 video that surfaced during his 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, then-mayor of Burlington, Vermont, ...