The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign policy, but he’s taking things ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed a strategic initiative because it expected to join the so-called Western community on equal terms, Russian historian, director of the Institute for Systemic and ...

NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with some modifications. Today is May Day. Since ...

1895 — African American jockey James “Soup” Perkins guides Halma to a wire-to-wire victory in the Kentucky Derby. The 15-year-old joins fellow African American jockey Alonzo Clayton as the youngest ...

Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson looks closely at President Trump's deal with Ukraine which could end ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

Before the SR-71 became the face of American spy planes, there was the A-12 Archangel—faster, lighter, and more secretive. Capable of Mach 3.2 and altitudes near 95,000 feet, the A-12 was constructed ...

Tim Bouverie's 'old-fashioned diplomatic history' explores the often fraught relationship between world powers ...

May 1st holds a special place in history as a date that marks numerous significant events across the globe.International ...

Russia’s military build-up in Belarus and near NATO borders raises fears of future aggression. As NATO members boost defense spending and posture in response, there is growing tension in the air.

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

Ukraine’s mineral resources are concentrated in two geologic provinces. The larger of these, known as the Ukrainian Shield, is a wide belt running through the center of the country, from the northwest ...