War is never pretty, but there can be levels even to the cruelty and ugliness of war, with some almost inconceivably horrendous. Such levels can be measured by one macabre metric: the number of deaths ...
The 20-year War in Afghanistan ended in August 2021, becoming America’s lengthiest conflict ever. The second Iraq War, concluding in 2011 after 8 years, was shorter. But continuing clashes with ISIS ...
In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself. A statue of the Buddha in Kamakura, ...
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented History of Now Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History The steel frame of the Francis Scott Key ...