Since the inhabitants of Jemna in southern Tunisia wrested control of their 100-year-old palm grove from the state during the ...

Millions of people know there is something deeply wrong with the system. On Palestine marches, thousands chant, “One Solution ...

The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.

Freeing the few remaining political prisoners, the mob began, stone-by-stone, dismantling the building that had come to symbolize the injustice of the old regime. This was the Revolution of 1789. On ...

When Stalin’s purges swept through the Soviet intelligentsia—killing millions and turning half of Europe into a ...

Few kings of France faced a more daunting prospect than Henri Bourbon in 1589. France was decades into the Wars of Religion, ...