Before Band of Brothers became the benchmark for WWII television, one impressive five-season series had already transformed ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Mick Jackson’s 1984 film Threads endures as the most devastating depiction of nuclear war in apocalyptic cinema. Its ...

As East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition ...

As America marks 250 years, the remarkable friendship between Lafayette and George Washington still resonates across the Atlantic.

Now, blood is just part of the canvas. Red strokes in his silent art. He slices through flesh and bone with the same ...

Late 20th-century culture wars over artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano set the stage for the transgressive Age of Trump.

The U.S. and Iran agreed on a peace deal to bring immediate and permanent termination to the conflict. The deal follows weeks of mixed messaging from both Washington and Tehran on the trajectory of ...

The number of conflicts between states continued to increase sharply in 2025 and has now reached the highest level since World War II. At the same time, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... First, the bad news: The Iran War shows no signs of ending soon. Tehran on Monday said it would suspend peace talks with the U.S. in protest ...

For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and therefore from maturity.

Aspects such as drone technology and diplomacy show how the wars intersect on the battlefield and in global alignments, providing a model for future conflicts. By Lara Jakes Lara Jakes covers conflict ...