It's the summer of 1942 and a series of explosions rips through aluminum plants in New York, Illinois and Tennessee. If you're scratching your head here and wondering why you haven't heard about these ...

Germany in 1933 was not a primitive tribal society. It was one of the most advanced nations on earth, a powerhouse of science, philosophy, industry, and culture. Yet within months of Hitler becoming ...

The great German philosopher both robustly defended the public sphere—and for seven decades never stopped participating in it ...

I’d give anything not to write it this column. But the comparisons are clear when history rhymes. President Donald Trump’s ...

Trump’s foreign policy reasoning mirrors the crackpot logic of a runaway authoritarian. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

I’d give anything not to write this column. But the comparisons are clear when history rhymes. President Donald Trump’s America ...

G. J. Berger presents the remarkable diary of Katharina Berger, capturing a mother’s experience raising a child amid ...

What if? President Trump’s decision to take out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei produced global headlines. Like this one from TIME ...

Historically, unconditional surrender to the United States has been followed by prolonged US military occupation.

A teenager in Nazi Germany, Habermas was a member of the Hitler Youth though avoided being drafted into the Wehrmacht when armistice was called. Studying in Germany and Switzerland after the war, he ...

Jüergen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...

Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to Atlantis.