Saddam Hussein may be gone, but the pan-Arab and Baath legacies remain forces with which anyone contemplating the future of Iraq must reckon.
Two scientists present the evidence that greenhouse gases are causing the Earth's warming.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union built the pan-Soviet workers’ paradise of Kaliningrad atop the physical ruins of the historic Prussian city of Königsberg. Now Kaliningrad--capitalist, impoverished, drug-ridden, and physically cut off from the rest of Russia--is struggling to build a new identity atop the political and economic ruin of its Soviet past.
Even after the 9/11 attacks, it's still statistically safer to fly than drive.
The Civil War may have forged the American nation, but it also spawned a lot of really bad paintings. A critic explains why.
Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward, was a curious product of his times.
The economic success of Shanghai seems too good to be true...and perhaps it is.
China's debate over whether to preserve or restore the ruined site of the great imperial palace complex of Yuanming Yuan shows how the Chinese are grappling with their past--and how they imagine their future.
Tensions between the United States and its European allies often ran high during the later days of the Cold War, but today’s conflicts are more numerous and frequently more severe—and they won’t be resolved without strong commitments from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.