In 1959, evangelicals looked to political leaders to hold up America’s great spiritual heritage as responses to the Soviet ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of ...

In late September, the Dutch government invoked a Cold War-era emergency law to take control of a Chinese-owned chip company ...

The deadly legacy of Cold War uranium mines looms over better regulated operations near Navajo Nation land in Arizona.

A new study investigates strange bursts of light captured in old astronomical photos, suggesting they may link to both UFO sightings and Cold War nuclear testing.

More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at ...

Speaking at a private event in Brussels, Khodorkovsky told Politico that Europe should expect “a kind of Cold War that will ...

A G.O.P. fund-raiser, he was the Navy chief under Gerald R. Ford and held ambassadorships in the 1970s and ’80s. He gained notice for his classical music compositions. By Robert D. McFadden J. William ...

Lt. Angelo Belloni seized control of submarine F-43 at the Muggiano shipyards near La Spezia, Italy. The coastal submarine, ...

Stanley Chesley, a class-action lawsuit pioneer who took on cigarette companies and the makers of faulty breast implants until his legal career ended amid accusations of unethical conduct, has died at ...

To understand how anti-Zionism evolved into a dominant moral language on the progressive left, and how the Palestinian cause came to be seen as the paradigmatic struggle against oppression, we must ...

From the Challenger explosion and $0.25-a-minute phone calls to the Tylenol murders and 1-900 numbers, here are 23 real things from the 1980s that were way darker (and weirder) than anyone remembers.