During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 12. Check what happened ...

Mr. Brooke has traveled to about 100 countries reporting for the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Voice of America. He reported ...

Maple Leafs' Sid Smith on April 10, 1949 after having scored a hat trick in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, and in the ...

Contemporary artists are co-opting the visual tropes of romantic rural scenes and bringing them to uncanny new ends in the ...

Azerbaijan’s history. The project has resulted in the publication of a comprehensive book titled “The Long Road of Our Oil to ...

A right-wing backlash erupted when James Gunn described the hero of his new film as an “immigrant” who models “kindness." But the Man of Steel has faced these attacks before—going back to 85 years.

“The term homosexual was coined in 1869,” says Jonathan D. Katz, the co-curator, along with art historian Johnny Willis, of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939.

"Live Not By Lies!" argues that parts of the West, particularly Britain, are in the grips of "soft totalitarianism." ...

It took time to reassemble the orchestra in 2022. The following January, amid rolling blackouts and power cuts, they played their traditional Viennese New Year’s concert in the dark to a packed house, ...

Applebaum: About older American traditions of state capture. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions.