The Iraq war drives front-page retrospectives this week, as The Independent stands firm in its opposition and brands the ...

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...

Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as it’s portrayed in Call of Duty games: a land of prisons and labor camps, where every citizen marched to the tune of the Party and its all-seeing ...

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most memorable speeches of the Cold War at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. In this historic moment, Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith, the award-winning host of “Inside Gorbachev’s USSR,” revisits the former Soviet Union to investigate how the institutions and people he filmed for his 1990 ...

This band had music that travelled, and in going to different countries, they were able to make genuine changes around the ...

On March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

March 14th marks Albert Einstein's birthday and Pi Day, celebrating the mathematical constant. This date also commemorates Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent in 1794, the first successful penicillin ...

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Please don’t take him just because you can.” The Jolene Doctrine sounds like the corollary to the way a senior administration ...