Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

Hidden within the suburban landscape of St. Louis County lies a natural escape so transformative you’ll swear you’ve been teleported hundreds of miles from civilization – Castlewood State Park in ...

Gerard Butler does his gruff best to keep his family alive in the aftermath of an extinction-level event in the propulsive ...

Imagine a volcanic eruption so massive it could plunge the Earth into darkness, trigger widespread famine, and alter the ...

The Mayan civilization has deep roots in Mexico, but how did a once great civilization completely disappear? In today's ...

Why societies fall apart isn’t politics or morals, an author argues—it’s cognitive failure, a pattern he says can be scientifically tested. Evil doesn’t take over societies by force or intelligence.

Charles Bryant is a Greenwood-based chef and co-founder of Grafton Peek Catering and Hartwell’s Premium salad dressing. His ...

His book, “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations,” looks at the “golden ages” of Ancient Athens ...

Historian James Hankins, 70, has decided to step down from Harvard because of the alleged changes in admission standards that ...

Palantir’s paid fellowship gives high school grads a chance to skip college, gain real-world experience, and possibly land ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...