On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

The process of democratic transformation has gained significant importance in political science since the mid-1970s, coinciding with what is known as the ...

History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

What It’s About: The latest from The Verge journalist and novelist Nguyen (“New Waves”) follows four Vietnamese American cousins whose lives are thrown into disarray after the U.S. government ...

As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The president of Northwestern Bell Telephone was summoned to Washington to assemble the first plans for Cold War civilian ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Another conflict is looming in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its ...

The Department of Homeland Security is cutting jobs in the oversight divisions focused on civil rights as a part of a broader reduction in force effort across the federal government. The affected ...

Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), have advocated using force against Iran for years, and they show no signs of softening that position. “I have, for a long time, been willing to call quite ...