The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...

Part documentary, part scripted drama, Rise of Empires: Ottoman doesn’t try to turn history into homework. Instead, it leans ...

Anthony R. Dolan, who as Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter deployed the phrase "evil empire" in 1983 to describe the Soviet Union and in another address consigned Marxism and Leninism to "the ash ...

Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America’s all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and retiring as a ...

How do you do something that should be impossible and turn your own war crimes into a political victory? How do you sell a massacre? What’s the key to getting the public to celebrate an atrocity? You ...

Star Wars began by telling us the Empire is evil in A New Hope‘s opening scroll. An hour later we saw how true that was when Grand Moff Tarkin obliterated Alderaan, instantly murdering millions. But ...

The backstory: It wasn’t uncommon in the ’90s for successful musical artists to openly opine on the perils and drawbacks of fame while simultaneously doing seemingly anything possible to stay in the ...

The first arc of Andor‘s second season included one of the most terrifying sequences in Star Wars history. It didn’t involve lightsabers or blasters. It involved truly normal people planning a truly ...