This video examines how the Soviet Union transformed communist ideology into a belief system that mirrored many structures traditionally associated with religion. It explores how figures like Karl ...

Some people are put on earth to do more than one big thing. Winston S. Churchill was such a man. If he had just been the new prime minister inspiring his people’s courage — the incarnation of Britain ...

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of ...

To begin with, let me recount an old Soviet, Cold War–era joke about America. A Russian and an American are seated side by side on an airplane flying from Moscow to Washington. The American turns to ...

Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has died at the age of 86. Few men in the modern world have spread more death and destruction.

It was a uniquely Irish clash of cultures: a row over farm size. In a television studio last week I watched as two men argued passionately about the size of the farms they grew up on. Cultural and ...

Recently, Tamil superstar Rajinikanth won hearts when he met a Chennai sanitation worker, Padma, at his Poes Garden home and gifted her a gold chain. While the moment his team shared online won hearts ...

A backlash to the backlash is forming. We can’t be complacent. Donald Trump’s reelection capitalized on the anti–gender ideology backlash. His campaign’s most famous ad said that Kamala Harris was for ...

Today, a newly dominant political ideology is shaping India, the world’s most populous country. That ideology is Hindu nationalism, a movement that aims to embody the modern expression of ancient ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --Former Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno will stand trial on bribery charges linked to the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric complex, the country's largest power plant, built by the ...

Last week, the board of regents of the Texas A&M University System voted to forbid professors from teaching courses that “advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Hours after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump used his ...