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George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.

Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

Nicholas Lemann’s Returning traces his Louisiana family’s gradual distancing across generations from its Jewish faith and his own efforts to reembrace it.

Alfred Tennyson's poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith.

To the Editors: In his review of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West , Yuri Slezkine makes assertions that should unsettle anyone concerned about the fate of

The federal government is charging a skyrocketing number of migrants with trespassing in military zones. The boundaries can be hard to pinpoint — even for investigative reporters.

For people who came of age in the 1970s, it is especially painful to witness the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of hard-won environmental progress. But as the assaults on clean air and water, endangered species, and more mount, a noted ecologist finds reasons for hope.

The money is being redirected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a government-owned utility with a checkered past.

Drought, low snowpack, and a winter heatwave have left every state in the Western U. S. facing an above-average risk of summer wildfires.

Norway’s electrification plans are framed as climate action, but Sámi leaders say they threaten reindeer herding, land rights, and lack meaningful consultation.

The political left has become simultaneously more mainstream and more radical.

Algiers has historically close ties with Tehran—but it may benefit from the ongoing war.

At the start of the war found Iranian Americans split on the war. Now a NIAC poll found that two-thirds want to see it end.

However, U. S. law dictates that only an act of Congress or a Senate resolution can withdraw Washington from the alliance.

Former officials were arrested over the weekend in connection with a crackdown on protesters last year.

As the world watches Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan clash.

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U. S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

It’s even more complicated than capturing a Venezuelan president.

For Iranians under fire, surges of patriotism and criticism of the government.