The birth of our country may feel like a familiar story. But in making a documentary about it, we found plenty of revelations ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Almost a century since Gibran’s words and exactly 50 years after the start of the country’s civil war, it seems that Lebanon ...

Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.

Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.

Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.This conflict in Ethiopia's north erupted less than ...

The earthquake has deepened Myanmar’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, with 20 million people already in need of aid before the disaster. The Sagaing region, one of the worst-hit areas, is largely ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL ...

Alec Baldwin says the country is in a “bad” state of political division, describing it as a “pre-Civil War environment.” “Boy ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by ...