History

Reviews of the latest releases on mosquitoes, the Islamic State, and Kim Jong Un.

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks anticipated robots and artificial intelligence—and they didn’t trust them.

This weekend's G-20 efforts are likely to flop as old quarrels emerge.

The transportation secretary is part of a long line of individuals who’ve bridged China and the United States—and done well for themselves in the process.

Seventy-five years after D-Day, the United States should remember that on-the-ground leadership still works.

When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, a crackdown on the Muslim minority ensued.

America’s decline resembles nothing so much as the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Presidential candidates should take note.

Gay employees were hounded from office in a dark episode of State Department history from the 1950s and ’60s, and many committed suicide.

The hidden history of the Fialka espionage machine.

Despite being spared the worst, Notre Dame is not out of danger, says the building expert Caroline Bruzelius.

By idealizing the past, Americans have made themselves unsafe in the present.

This week, India and Pakistan faced off in Kashmir, and Trump left Hanoi empty-handed.

The Russian-produced Netflix series is selling worrying myths to the public.

The country doesn’t need an openly pro-Russian political party. Its own government’s attempts to rewrite Polish history play directly into Vladimir Putin’s hands.

France’s president is pushing around Britain, Germany, and Italy—and going back to his country’s foreign-policy roots.

Germany’s unregulated highways might be the most irrational aspect of its modern identity—but you can’t blame it on the Führer.

The Chinese Communist Party sees the past as a resource to be plundered by the present.

How the ads in a crumbling newspaper offer glimpses of a vanished world.

An ambitious oral history project will determine how the war in Syria is remembered.

From being wary about the Middle East to protecting America’s intelligence services, the former president was far more prescient than he’s often given credit for.