He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

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Most Americans live hand-to-mouth, even if their lives are better than in developing countries. When Trump takes away their ...

They showed that a small number of activists can have an outsized impact even under circumstances that, in every imaginable ...

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In 1844, the Dominican Republic was granted independence from Haiti. In 1933, it was announced that President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use a 263-year-old tattered Dutch Bible that had ...