History

While visiting Delhi, Paul Krugman muses on the historical vastness of the Mughal Empire and how Western Europe came to dominate the world stage.

To imagine a “European Europe” de-Islamized is to imagine something entirely alien, a Europe without Shakespeare, without Martin Luther, without the scientific revolution, without the industrial revolution, and probably …

The United States grew out of the idea that it was common sense to launch a war to settle political differences.

Like African-Americans, Palestinians have been the targets of systematic dehumanization, which serves to justify the violence leveled against them by their respective oppressors.

The clock is not intended to act as a literal countdown to doomsday.

Humanity has not been unlucky enough to observe at first hand the effects of a large impact, so to investigate whether a massive asteroid would spark off a global …

There is an insidious message here to an officer corps that is ever mindful that the Constitution makes no promotions: You are sworn to carry out orders.

The war hawks and politicians in Washington DC will tell you it is being reinvested to defeat terror and secure American interests abroad; that the elusive dividend payment is …

Professor Yoshimi was the person who discovered the official documents revealing the Japanese Imperial Army's inextricable involvement in the “comfort women.”

This is a tender but frank recollection of a childhood in tumultous times in the house that was Ground Zero of nonviolent resistance to the war in Vietnam, to …