History

Boris Johnson shouldn’t shy away from global leadership and the morally driven approach that protected Kosovars and Iraqi Kurds in the 1990s.

Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.

But 50 years after independence, an authoritarian turn casts a shadow over the country’s future.

Emma Southon’s book on murder in Rome depicts a state built on death.

A new book about a forgotten attempt to resolve World War I sheds light on the struggles facing the West’s diplomats today.

Decades of failed efforts to woo China explain the Biden administration’s tough talk ahead of Alaska meeting.

The territory at the tip of Spain will remain British on paper, but in practice Brexit has brought it closer to the EU than ever before.

During crisis after crisis, London’s financial giants cried wolf about leaving. Now the wolf is at the door.

The left is relativizing the past, the far-right is insisting on its uniqueness, and the country’s historical culture is cracking from within.

Pre-modern European power was grounded in marriage and childbirth, not just conflict.

Wanton repression is building up more pressure for the next uprising.

Reagan’s top diplomat ended the Cold War and reshaped the world.

Hitler’s first coup attempt failed—but German democracy broke down anyway. Here’s how the United States can avoid the same fate.

Mike Konczal’s ‘Freedom From the Market’ resurrects a lost U.S. tradition.

The Arab Spring’s democratic success story is wrestling with the vestiges of an authoritarian past.

An English-led disaster has emboldened others to get out.

The positive contrast with the European Union’s COVID-19 vaccine debacle has masked a rocky exit from Europe.

France lost the Algerian War but is still controlling the narrative about its history—while refusing to apologize or pay reparations. 

How the Underground Railroad laid tracks to Mexico.