Soon after the outbreak of World War I – he was then in his 50th year – he enlisted as a volunteer. Leaving behind his Jewish wife, Hannah, and their only daughter, Bertha, he became the military head ...

Designed as a tool of retaliation, this World War 2 weapon was meant to punish enemy forces through sheer destructive power. Its deployment reflected how far wartime escalation had progressed, ...

Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest ...

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order.

In a letter published in the Claremont Courier on January 23 [“Was the lonely A Line worth it?”], Mr. Linde correctly assesses that current ridership on the new A Line is very low. Hopefully it will ...