Despite Winston Churchill’s coining of the phrase “special relationship,” the history of relations between Britain and America shows it’s not so special.

Sudan’s army has reclaimed the Presidential Palace in the capital, Khartoum, in a significant victory over a rampaging militia that controls swaths of the war-torn country. The Sudanese Armed ...

“The queen found him so frightful that when there was a break she was walking through the gardens of Buckingham Palace with her corgis, and Ceaușescu was coming the other way and she hid in ...

I thought of Nicolae Ceaușescu, of Saddam Hussein and, specifically, of Muammar Gaddafi – when the end comes for autocrats, it’s usually death that brings it and often violently so. What would Marlowe ...