"It's impossible to see the weakness of a dictatorship until defiance exposes that weakness," the "Last Word" host says.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of a monumental moment in history—the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, the world watched as the Wall that divided East and West Germany for nearly ...

Ed Gavagan, the victim of a random stabbing, struggles to reestablish his life while suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Author Nathan Englander describes coming of age at 19 while ...

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<br><p>John F. Kennedy may have loved Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, but the true literary spymaster of the '60s was John Le Carr&eacute;. Under his real name, David Cornwell, he worked for MI6, the ...

A woman’s walk down a Berlin street on a cold day is made even more depressing by the presence of the two-year-old Berlin ...

U.S. Army investigators determined that Nicholson’s death was “officially condoned, if not directly ordered” by the Soviet leadership. The Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...