As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for nuclear missiles — underneath the ice in Greenland. Dubbed "Project Iceworm," the ...

"It was reasonable to expect it to snow forever." Experts issue warning as top-secret US military base emerges from melting ...

Only four American presidents have ever received the Nobel Peace Prize, and only one of them has been a Republican.

It’s an attitude I’ve come across before in her generation. Like Evelyn, who lived through the war and nursed her parents and her husband through terminal illness, they endured hardship. And like ...

However, the emergence of new centers of power, particularly China and to a lesser extent Russia, has brought the unipolar era to a close, ushering in a multipolar world where the distinctive nature ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

In The Mission, Tim Weiner argues that the agency’s past 25 years have been defined by scandal, psychodrama and human error ...

Plus: President Donald Trump announces new tariffs for copper, Brazil and more. | Death tolls rise in the flooding disasters ...

These spaces, whether an old high school, a rundown house or a shipwreck, can deliver a thrill, but also a peek into the past ...

YUEN FOONG KHONG is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the ...

A survey of China’s periphery demonstrates the authoritarian’s need to isolate itself cognitively through the Great Firewall, ...