She was known for her lavish parties and her marriage to one of the richest men in San Francisco. After he left her, she found a new purpose: visiting world leaders to plead for peace.

From a Leftist perspective, Aijaz Ahmad succinctly concluded, “Khomeini’s takeover was one of those rare conjunctures in which the revolution and the counter-revolution were condensed in the same ...

TV Squad chats with Steven Lawrence on the newly-restored documentary, The Long Way Home, about Boris Grebenshchikov's ...

The president has broken with an 80-year leadership of the western alliance over his lust for the world's largest island, and ...

The United States, Russia and Ukraine rarely agree on anything. But as their delegations head to Abu Dhabi for their first ...

Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s legendary advisor plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today ...

Trump is xenophobic and paranoid – and he’s too old to change his mind about anything - COMMENT: Donald Trump will turn 80 in ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

Contributors from Taiwan and the mainland examined the touchy issue of relations between the two. The recent earthquake that devastated many areas of Taiwan prompted international messages of sympathy ...

The Soviet Union was Cuba’s benefactor for decades. Venezuela took up the slack, and Mexico has supplied “humanitarian aid.” ...

For at least a decade, the conventional wisdom has been that direct attempts at regime change by the United States have ended in disaster. And for good reason. In Afghanistan, the very same Taliban ...

The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...