As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries ...

Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics ...

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An expert has issued an ominous civil war warning and predicts there could be a tense breaking point in the US in the next ...

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In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

A political expert has warned that the possibility of political polarization reaching a violent breaking point throughout the ...

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War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

GIOE is British Academy Global Professor of Intelligence and International Security at King’s College London and a former CIA analyst and operations officer. MICHAEL V. HAYDEN is a retired U.S. Air ...

America’s foremost history documentarian is back at a pivotal moment. But is he avoiding the hard truths about the country’s origins?