Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran for nearly four decades since 1989. The period marked by various global leadership changes, ...

Khamenei assumed office as Iran’s supreme leader in 1989. At the time, the global political landscape looked dramatically different. Here’s a snapshot of leaders who were in power when he took charge: ...

The US thought, ‘We’re the hegemon, we’ll run the show.’ But, in fact, what we have is a bully in the United States—still ...

The scenes in Iran are a reminder of something the West too often forgets: autocratic regimes can look formidable right up to the moment they look inches away from crumbling. Since rule by fear has a ...

In responding to Stephen King’s letter of 2/22 accusing President Trump of “glorifying war,” on the contrary, Trump is working to PREVENT war. Who does the school yard bully pick ...

The website Charter97.org discussed these questions with David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and ...

The real break came on Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. After that, the nuclear arms control regime began to unravel, and it has become very difficult to repair. The Biden administration ...

Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...

Historian Ryan Gingeras examines the history -- and hidden influences – of underworld gangs around the globe.

Explore how the Soviet command economy led to consumer goods shortages, impacting daily life. Understand government production priorities and market limitations.

Mutilation It all happened so quickly that few people noticed. In fifteen years, Europe went from being a large continent to a small subcontinent. In 2010, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) ...

Among the most well-known of these systems is the American-made Tomahawk cruise missile, capable of travelling vast distances and hitting strategic targets with high accuracy. For decades, it has been ...