R.E.M.'s iconic song has resurfaced time and time again during global crises, but what does it really mean? This deep dive explores the song’s hidden messages, from Cold War politics to modern-day ...

Israel has already had a long history of passing on Russian weapons it captured off the numerous battlefields of the Middle ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

Similarly, the 1980s Iran-Contra affair saw the US trade over 1,500 missiles to Iran in exchange for three hostages. Not only did this failed deal encourage further hostage-taking, but it also ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

He’s high-energy for a senior citizen, never apologizes (like Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra affair apology), never admits he’s wrong and very often confuses lies with truth and vice versa ...

(Bush himself was at least tangentially involved in cocaine smuggling himself in the Iran-Contra affair). In a comedic sidenote to the invasion, the US mainstream media sent photographs of what ...

Steve Bannon and others in Trump's orbit weigh in on the U.S. president's recent actions and what it could mean for Canada's future.

Nixon: the Watergate affair; Reagan: the Iran-Contra affair; Trump: the falsifications of business records affair. The only conviction of wrongdoing goes to the current president of the United ...

There’s an old adage that “context is everything” and while it may not apply to all situations, it certainly rings true when it comes to politics and comedy. Both arenas are designed around performers ...

Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and bitter comic masterpiece ...

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.” - John F. Kennedy ...