“We live in a country with an unpredictable past.” This was a saying among the intelligentsia in the Soviet Union when I was growing up. We never knew which part of our history would be obliterated next. Now Americans, too, live in a country with an unpredictable past.

The ancients aggregated wealth. America was built by creating it.

How to regulate the new technology? The answer may lie in the common law.

Balaji Srinivasan left Silicon Valley and created an incubator for new countries in an Asian ghost city, before the government shut it down

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Allies that depend on U.S. military equipment need a Plan B.

Young kids shouldn’t have screen time, a new report warns. But who can afford to follow that advice?

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The only thing worse than the U.S. starting an unconstitutional war is President Trump losing control of that war. Excerpt: On Wednesday, NBC News reported that Trump “erupted” at members of his national security team over the Iran War. According to the report, his advisers can’t agree on a path forward. But how could they? Every path to victory risks dangerous escalation, while continuing the present course risks strategic defeat. This was always the most likely outcome. The

Americans agree on what feminism is. They're divided on whether it's finished its job.

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Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment.

Now you’re judged on your children’s lunch boxes and whether your olive oil has a story.

A recent study found that people spoke fewer words a day in 2019 than in 2005.

Near an oasis in the Gobi Desert, the stupendous mural-covered grottoes capture centuries of Buddhist art.

The legions of the Roman Republic set out to subdue the Mediterranean world in the name of the city. Rome’s military leaders eventually demanded total control.

As U.S. forces closed in on Japan in 1945, the nation’s military leaders refused to consider surrender. They were unprepared for the destruction yet to come.

Beijing chips away at American space power and gains better view of U.S. military activities

Millions of Americans dropped Affordable Care Act plans after higher subsidies expired and now struggle to pay