The First Opium War began as a trade dispute, but it quickly exposed a deeper power struggle between Britain and Qing China.

For little under fourteen years, the Taiping Rebellion waged over China. Seventeen provinces were ravished and the estimated loss of life is between 20 and 25 million. It is the deadliest civil war, ...

Open Space: From Earth to Eternity—the Global Race to Explore and Conquer the Cosmos, by David Ariosto, Knopf, 384 pages, $35 Two years ago, a Houston-based company you probably haven't heard of ...

Civilisational snobbery? We are injecting a very destructive, premature triumphalism into our youngsters, who are becoming ...

Despite the delay, the Forest Department has maintained that monitoring was carried out as per standard procedure.

Since it was first built in 1875, the Sassoon Dock in India’s financial capital of Mumbai has been many things: a gateway for ...

Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds − when leaders misread what they and their adversaries can do, when their confidence substitutes for comprehension, and ...

The founders of the United States feared monarchically inclined presidents who could wage wars of whim. A mass protest outside an ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, on January 17, 2026.

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In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists. By Joshua Hammer Joshua Hammer is the author of “The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a ...

Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator in London. The exact origin of the maxim “Don’t fight on two fronts” is lost to time. It can be ...

When Peter Mansoor, an ex-U.S. Army colonel who did two long tours in Iraq, considers the unfolding war in Iran, he worries the U.S. risks getting dragged into another long and costly fight in the ...