History May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 Steal of the century. How the West allowed Stalin to Sovietize Poland after World War II On April 25, Reuters published the full text of the U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine.… Mary Williams
History May 01, 2025May 01, 2025 From trade wars to battlefields: Tariff disputes have ignited some of history’s biggest conflicts History shows that tariff wars, similar to the one recently initiated by Donald Trump, have often escalated beyond… Mary Williams
History Apr 30, 2025Apr 30, 2025 There and Back Again: Trans people in the West are losing ground in their struggle for rights On Jan. 20, shortly after his return to the White House, Donald Trump issued a set of transphobic… Mary Williams
History Apr 24, 2025Apr 24, 2025 The Templars of Langley, Virginia: Declassified documents outline the CIA’s quest to find the Ark of the Covenant Photo by Alex Traiman Documents discovered by chance in declassified CIA papers reveal that in the late 1980s,… Mary Williams
History Apr 21, 2025Apr 21, 2025 The Lost Army: War veterans could pose a serious problem for Putin’s Russia The potential for a truce or end to the war in Ukraine raises an urgent question: what will… Mary Williams
History Feb 18, 2025Feb 18, 2025 Diagnosis as denunciation: Kremlin meddling in doctor-patient confidentiality has a long history Starting Mar. 1, 2025, Russian doctors will be required to share data with the police on patients with… Mary Williams
History Jan 14, 2025Jan 14, 2025 The Struggle for Queer: A look at LGBT activism in the USSR A year ago, Russia’s Supreme Court declared the “International LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” Although such an organization… Mary Williams
History Dec 23, 2024Dec 23, 2024 Death Camps Inc. How the Syrian dictatorship outsourced the construction of torture prisons to fugitive Nazis Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial,… Mary Williams
History Dec 06, 2024Dec 06, 2024 Polite comrades: How Moscow pioneered the use of “little green men” in Estonia a century ago A hundred years ago, on Dec. 1, 1924, Estonian communists attempted a coup d’état that enjoyed the direct… Mary Williams
History Oct 22, 2024Nov 11, 2024 Saladin and the wonderful lamp: Why Iran really believes Israel is using Djinns to fight Hezbollah A prominent Iranian theologian, Mustafa Karami, recently claimed that Israel’s success in eliminating Hamas and Hezbollah commanders can… Mary Williams