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On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

In his famous 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., Winston Churchill saluted “the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples.” The world remembered ...

Sunny Ajose happened twice upon this world. First, as a gamete, ruffling deep inside his mother’s womb. At his second dawning ...

Trieste is a harbor city tucked into the northeastern corner of Italy, where hilly streets drop to piazzas along the Adriatic ...

then-Vice President Mike Pence made a speech expressing disappointment in and strong opposition to China — reminiscent of wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain ...

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg’s plan to end the war in Ukraine is facing challenges as he is tasked with finding a ...

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was an intensely human hero ... the cold war, the Iron Curtain, Europe’s drive for unity, disorder and dictatorship in many of the lands that had once been ...

Westminster College is pleased to announce those students named to the Fall 2024 Dean’s List for exemplary academic performance. The list of 235 students includes 70 freshmen, 51 sophomores, 43 ...