The government has begun celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. For several nights over the New Year holiday, a very tall, very thin video played on the sides of the Washington ...

For most Americans and Europeans alive today, a world of anarchy probably never felt quite real. Since 1945, the United States and its allies crafted and maintained an order that while neither fully ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...