Tag: History

The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...

A new painting of Donald Trump in the White House Entrance Hall.Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe White House has 132 rooms, and each new US president gets $100,000 to redecorate them.With every ...

In the coming weeks, Flash Points will have a new name: The Reading List. Expect continued curated guides to the best articles in the magazine. Each Sunday, I’ll take you ...

It is rare that we can watch the unfolding of a global economic downturn with such precision as we can today. With a 145 percent U.S. tariff on China and ...

As I watched the recent video of federal agents descending on Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University Ph.D. student and Turkish national, I thought of Wai-Hing Tso—the first Chinese student to ...

 When my youngest child was in 6th grade in the fall of 2020, he was required to take Minnesota history. That year, thanks to the pandemic, school mostly happened in ...

The image of the world’s most powerful CEOs attending Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 is seared by now in our collective memories. Power attracts money, of course—especially if tax ...

“Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Italy, and Western Germany should form one federated state. To help this America could afford to spend a lot, because we’d get something successful, strong, ...

Concerns about nuclear proliferation, already heightened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, as analysts worry that the Trump administration’s apparent ...

Last September, under pressure from the Turkish government, Netflix agreed to release one of its new series only in Greece and Cyprus. Famagusta depicts the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. ...