For the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has seemed uncharacteristically passive. His own Republican Party bucked him ...

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A new book argues that societies built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

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At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

But China’s leaders do not seem ready to pursue these changes. Instead, the Communist Party’s latest five-year plan, a draft ...

When I was about 10, he started taking the family to a Berkeley revival house that played the great movies of my parents’ ...

The belief that his son’s death inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet is itself inspired by an enduring, compelling, and ...