Mikhail Zygar was the founding editor in chief of TV Rain, Russia’s lone independent news television station until it went into exile in 2022, and the author of “All the Kremlin’s Men” and “The Empire ...

Doubtless kindness lay behind Penguin’s absence of response to The Critic’s repeated requests for a review copy for me of this book. My request also failed, but I have gone out and bought a copy, and ...

Handwoven rugs have long been deployed as symbols of wealth, power and sophistication. For connoisseurs, finding the most beautiful can become an obsession.

Indeed, racism and imperialism are such endemic features of conservative Protestantism that, all too often, historians and political analysts alike mistakenly position them in opposition to typically ...

Alaskans think of themselves as occupying an edge, not a borderland. It’s a notion reinforced by world maps, usually centered on the Atlantic Ocean, which place Alaska in the upper left-hand corner.

America stepped onto the world stage with a bang in 1898, scoring an easy victory over Spain in Cuba and in the Philippines. From that victory grew possession of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and Samoa ...

To understand why the world is the way it is now, there’s a question we have to ask: What is imperialism? The history of imperialism helps explain everything from contemporary foreign policy to why ...

Histories of Zionism in the interwar period usually focus on Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South ...

The Governor was speaking at a book-reading, where celebrated Kenyan writer, poet and Standard Group journalist Tony Mochama released his new book, “Political Party After Political Party”. [Elvis ...