Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

As historian Lloyd E. Eastman wrote, China resisted a better-trained and better-equipped army for eight full years. France held out for only six weeks. The UK survived with US supplies. China's stand, ...

The Korean Central News Agency said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim Yong Nam on Tuesday to ...

In one of the greatest ironies of the Cold War, the U.S. had to secretly buy the titanium needed to build the Mach 3+ SR-71 ...

Economic illiteracy could be the big winner in Tuesday's off year elections, especially in New York and New Jersey. Hopefully ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

Arkansans old enough to remember ducking and covering under school desks to practice for a Soviet thermonuclear attack face ...

Richard Gott, who has died aged 87, was an academic, journalist, and a chronicler and supporter of Marxist guerrilla ...

In 1916, a Polish scientist discovered how to create a mono-crystal, which later became the basis for integrated circuits and semiconductors.

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...

The world is entering an unmapped era of nuclear risk. The answer is not new explosive tests, but a coordinated campaign with allies to maximize deterrence while working to establish new norms against ...

Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...