Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the ...

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his ...

History shows that empires rarely fall suddenly but decline slowly through war, debt, and internal division. Is America ...

Every day, the Iran war proves that Trump is most unworthy of becoming the President of the greatest and mightiest nation ...

The Bush years have been marked by a vigorous debate on whether America has moved from superpower to empire. When she was National Security Advisor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice clearly said ...

The idea that the United States is following the path of ancient Rome is one of the most debated historical comparisons but ...