Tag: History

U.S. President Joe Biden made headlines on Dec. 1 when he pardoned his son, Hunter. As the Thanksgiving weekend came to an end, the president decided to make the extraordinary ...

French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the “sublime” rebuild of the magnificent 12th-century gothic Notre Dame de Paris cathedral as he toured it before reopening on Friday. Notre Dame de Paris ...

When Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned under pressure amid mass student protests in August, some of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist supporters were quick to blame—without much ...

In 1966, Chinese leader Mao Zedong engineered a decisive return to power after seven years of quiet retreat following the first period of his near-absolute rule, which ended with one ...

Perhaps no moment better sums up the theme and purpose of Gladiator II than when the film’s hero, Lucius “Hanno” Verus (Paul Mescal), needing courage and inspiration, seeks it at ...

Rep.-elect Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) will literally be following in his great-grandfather’s footsteps come January, after successfully securing the House office space once occupied by his congressman ancestor.  Barrett, who flipped ...

Being the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, has always been a risky business. Modern incumbents are not likely to be murdered before their own altar, beheaded ...

Choosing to write about “settler colonialism” as a theoretical notion and political concept is not an obvious choice for a poet and cultural critic, but Adam Kirsch’s new book is ...

A Kansas City museum took great caution when unveiling a century-old time capsule. On Oct. 16, the The National World War I Museum and Memorial held a ceremony to open ...

In Africa, one doesn’t need to look hard these days to spot crises. Case in point: the broad swath of the continent known as the Sahel. There, in recent years, ...