List of History articles
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Xi Zhongxun from a postage stamp commemorating the Chinese military leader. A Squabble About History Almost Killed Xi Jinping’s Father
Fights about the party’s past are serious business in Beijing.
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South Africans gather at the Union Buildings. The Death Penalty Isn’t African. It’s a Legacy of Colonialism.
Capital punishment was a tool of white supremacy designed to instill terror and cement foreign domination. African governments should abolish it.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Boris Johnson’s Roman Fantasies
Blaming the fall of Rome on immigration is an old, wrong, and dangerous idea.
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germany-suspense-tatort-foreign-policy-illustration-horror-week Germany’s Love Affair With Crime Fiction
The genre is a potent mirror for a country still coming to terms with itself.
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North Korean army soldiers It’s Time for Biden to End the Korean War
The U.S. president should ignore fearmongering and build on a real opportunity.
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CasaPound members hold torches. Mussolini’s Heirs Equate World War II Killings of Italians With the Holocaust
By comparing the foibe killings with Nazi genocide, the Italian right is whitewashing the country’s past.
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An Afghan National Army soldier takes a selfie The U.S. Military Needs to Learn How to Train Auxiliary Armies
The Afghan army’s collapse shows American forces are using the wrong approach.
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People drink in an Oktoberfest beer festival tent. How Europe’s Temperance Movement Saved Beer
Socialists fought for prohibition to stop workers being exploited.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping leaves after making a toast during a welcome banquet for the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2017. Wu Hong/Getty Images China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite.
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French President Emmanuel Macron gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019. Europeans Want to Stay Out of the New Cold War
New polling shows that Europeans think a struggle between Washington and Beijing is unavoidable—but want no part of it.
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Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht stand with their hands up How America Forgot It Needed to Understand The Enemy
Social scientists helped win World War II by judging enemy morale. But in Afghanistan, the U.S. kept getting it wrong.
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World War I recruitment poster When Germany Was China
Attempts to explain Berlin’s militarism tells us something about how analysts approach Beijing.
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Tunisian military forces guard the area around the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26. Keep Tunisia’s Military Out of Politics
President Kais Saied has broken a 65-year taboo.
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North Vietnamese Army tanks take over the South Vietnamese presidential palace. Stop Comparing Afghanistan’s Fall to South Vietnam’s
Americans are still using the lens of a half century-old conflict.
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A man walks on a bridge decorated with flags of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Peace on Azerbaijan’s Terms Won’t End the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Baku is attempting to assert sovereignty through force and ethnic cleansing while denying Armenians the right to self-determination.
