During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly transformed civilian space stations into armed military platforms, culminating in the only known cannon ever fired in space. Decades later, declassified ...

In this excellent new PEACOCK series all the best parts of 1970s style are front and center, backed up by impressive ...

The imperialist U.S. state stops at nothing; anything goes. Really?  After victory in World War II and with U.S. manufacturing in high gear, the United ...

For at least a decade, the conventional wisdom has been that direct attempts at regime change by the United States have ended in disaster. And for good reason. In Afghanistan, the very same Taliban ...

Great power competition gives the United States all the more reason to invest in international cooperative frameworks for ...

As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is “an empire in decline,” following a predictable pattern of ...

By unseating Nicolas Maduro, the US has left even allies like the Philippines fearing a future in which great powers do as ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded that Denmark turn Greenland over to the United States. This raises the question of ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Peter Krause of Boston College about the Trump Administration's willingness to act ...

China has intentionally chosen to hide its nuclear doctrine as a core part of its strategy—exponentially increasing the risk ...

The Nuclear Age will appeal to a broad audience, both newcomers to the topic and those who are conversant but not academic ...

In this video I talk about the genesis of climate change in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. This conflict pulled together all the pieces necessary to discover that humans ...