The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

This video tracks the moment old legitimacy began to fail, as Enlightenment ideas, the French Revolution, and Napoleon reshaped what nations believed they were. Then the Industrial Revolution and a ...

A "multipolar" world is one with many great world powers, as opposed to a "unipolar" world with the United States as the ...

For centuries, China stood among the world’s most influential powers, but the 1800s brought a devastating shift. This video ...

The U.S. campaign in Venezuela has drawn from a centuries-old playbook employing naval force — but added some new elements, ...

Big Debt plays a role in disintegrative warfare. In the U.S., 2022's hyperinflation and government budget excess exacerbated Washington's debt problem. Washington's structural debt is the biggest self ...

People traded as commodities, iron cages used for punishment, severed fingers and even human sacrifice. These grisly details were revealed during interrogations of some of Asia’s most notorious ...

In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely ...

Local cinemagoers will soon be able to catch the first Malaysian artificial intelligence (AI)-generated film on the big ...

In this visionary experiment from Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), dream and film, history and memory come together in a beautiful, shifting kaleidoscope of images. *No charge ...

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, ...

As loose leaf tea spread, China held an extraordinary advantage. Virtually all of the world’s tea trees grew within its ...