Tag: History

The aesthetics are compelling. Black and white photos of a Tehran University lecture hall with men and women seated side by side wearing the best of 1950s European fashions. Young ...

The on-again, off-again feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is on again—and the world’s richest man has kicked things into overdrive. Musk announced over the weekend ...

Imagine this: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin stand on either side of Chinese President Xi Jinping atop Beijing’s Tiananmen Tower, watching a Chinese military parade. What ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Last month, we published a brief history of China’s language Romanization—and why Americans in particular mispronounce the name of Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was ...

The turn of the century saw a rise in labor movements as industry grew largely unregulated.Bettmann/Getty ImagesAmid renewed uncertainty over President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs, history might offer us clues ...

The Connecticut state capitol.Faina Gurevich/ShutterstockA state's capitol can tell you a lot about its history and government.Many state capitols feature references to their locations, like Kansas' statue of a Kansa ...

Men in power are often animated by the desire to retain and consolidate their power—but not always by that alone. Sometimes, personal aggrandizement goes hand in hand with a sense ...

In historical perspective, it is a new thing for U.S. presidents to say they are shaping foreign policy with human rights in mind. Jimmy Carter redefined the presidency in this ...

In terms of shaking up the global exchange rate system, there is little question that Richard Nixon serves as the closest analogy to Donald Trump in his second term. Nixon’s ...

As liberal critics of the Trump presidency have scrambled for traction since January, one historical analogy seems ubiquitous: “If you want a model for what’s happening to America,” economist Paul ...