Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

The limited historical drama from "Game of Thrones" co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss chronicles the assassination of ...

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the ...

It seems like Almost Yesterday that intercollegiate debate began on the campus of Southeast Missouri Normal School. A turning point in that process was the arrival on campus of Professor Arthur Winn ...

The most admired, desirable and attractive people and things, those that are universally deemed cool, have been part of the ...

Since the end of Game of Thrones, creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss have focused much of their energy on 3 Body Problem, an ambitious, challenging sci-fi ser ...

President Ahmed al-Shara vowed to be inclusive, but the way crucial decisions have been made has left some Syrians wary. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria The newly appointed ...

Former al Qaeda member Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as Syria’s president for a transitional period. “We announce the appointment of Commander Ahmad ...