A blend of personal trauma and real-world tragedy created the conditions for William Golding's famously pessimistic novel to ...

Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik ...

While Trump is ever more desperately focused on the Middle East, maybe some of us should still be focusing on El Salvador. This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...

Tyrants and dictators often dream of building gigantic monuments to themselves. It usually doesn't work ...

Bellarmine Mugabe, 28, the son of late Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe, has pleaded guilty in South Africa to pointing a gun and immigration offences after a shooting ...

When Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica one year ago, he carried with him a piece of ...

After 18 years, ferry captain Peter Wells is ready to sell. Chappaquiddick residents are worried about who will buy.

This has to be one of the more disgusting things to come out of this wingnut's mouth. Sorry Ben, but pointing out the hateful rhetoric that Trump spews day after day isn't "victim shaming." ...

History underscores the paradox of allowing a nuclear North Korea and denying Iran similar weapons.

President Richard Nixon’s advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan once termed “benign neglect.” As it happened, however, during the 1980s and 1990s, the United States planted seeds in Central America that ...

Imagining a world where Adolf Hitler survived World War II, Brian Klein's conspiracy thriller The Counterfeit Candidate ...

A Times investigation shows how the U.S. and Canadian mints ended up buying gold that came from a Colombian drug cartel.