Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution quickened. Within months some 400,000 Jews from the countryside had been ...

History regularly shows that basing economic policy upon ideology, hunches, and gut instinct, rather than on sound economic ...

The second world war wreaked devastation, but America had emerged as a geopolitical and industrial power. The ructions of the 1960s were still a decade ahead; the Depression’s privations were 15 ...

Economic policies have profound effects on the tensions within and between countries — tensions that can lead to war,” renowned progressive economist James K. Boyce remarked to me recently ...

Thankfully, there is a smarter way of doing historical revisionism without sounding like a complete crank. A.J.P .Taylor's Origin of the Second World War, as well as Hans Morgenthau's Politics ...

While the White House is waging a trade war on behalf of US manufacturing, the largest and most important part of the US economy, one that has a trade surplus, not a gap, is under threat.

Adam Hochschild’s latest book, American Midnight, examines a dark era in US history in which Woodrow Wilson and his administration went to war at home as well as abroad.

As concerns mount over the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s global tariff war, which began after he took office in January, leading American economists interviewed by The Chosunilbo ...

At the end of the Second World War, the cemetery contained the remains of more than 20,000 war dead, most of them Americans and all of them “adopted” by locals in gratitude for their sacrifice ...

If you want the big picture in my judgment, after World War II, George Kennan taught us about containment: “We’re going to contain the Soviet Union.” The irony, which the philosopher Hegel ...

However, many economists warn that those tariffs could backfire – badly – by raising prices on American families, killing jobs and setting off a global trade war.

Fed and Treasury officials were ridiculed for predicting that the post-pandemic surge in inflation would be 'transitory.' But they were right all along.