Seven Rivers is story of the Nile, Danube, Niger, Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze and the Thames. It is a story of imperial frontiers, alluvial gold, kidnappings, slavery, anticolonialism and creation ...

Today in History for Dec. 31: In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted the British East India Co. a monopoly on all trade to the East Indies. In 1687, the first shipload of emigrating Huguenots (French ...

From the time he became the prime minister of Hungary, Orban was always interested in concentrating all the power in his hands.

Is Putin a traditional Russian leader or, on the contrary, – does he represent a new type? Peter Pomerantsev: Putin is not a typical leader of Russia. He is a model authoritarian leader of the ...

Explore Ludwig von Mises' influential Austrian economics, key theories against socialism, and contributions to free-market capitalism.

Were any potential all-time great pictures made this year? Perhaps Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value has a shot. It does remarkably well in capturing one family’s relationship in somewhat universal ...