'It's a reminder to those of us who live in democracies that as much as we gripe about the imperfect nature of the governments we ...

Like the Cold War and Jim Crow segregation, the Berlin Wall was a part of the world when I was born in 1962.   It was erected in August 1961...

June 6, 1944 was one of the pivotal moments not only of World War II but of world history.   70 years ago on this date on the shores of No...

The world will never forget .    It's the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in which it is estimated that...

I wrote last year about the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly led to a global nuclear war.   Today is the 30th an...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur war between a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against...