Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?

On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.

Anxiety about China surpassing the United States is old news. The numbers are complicated—but actively undermining the postwar order isn't helping.

The president's meeting with Kim Jong Un could go more like Eisenhower with Khrushchev—which wouldn't be good.

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?

Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can't seem to define what it is they're defending. The entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.

Producers of guns and data say they aren't responsible for misuse. But it's precisely the dangers that make these industries profitable.

"Derzhavnost": It's why focusing on Putin, or trying to punish the country, usually backfires.

Militant suffragettes’ most important tactic was to turn women’s bodies—supposedly passive, pliant, and protected—into a battleground. 

No, we're not reliving the 1960s, says Harvard historian Arne Westad.

Industrialization, a new book argues, depended on gun-making. But from the start manufacturers refused any responsibility for gun violence.

Elisabeth Asbrink’s new book looks for lessons both in counterfactuals and in post-war history.

As a British royal wedding approaches, a new biography of the Duchess of Windsor shows a life of fury and prejudice.

On the left and the right, commentators are playing fast and loose with references to totalitarianism.

A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country

Two new books explain how the Klan gained so much power in the 1920s.

Can the museum tell a new story about art—and reshape the Gulf's image?

Why policymakers calculate the cost of life and death, sickness and health

Anne Applebaum's new book tells of an atrocity and cover-up that shape today's politics.