With a $10 billion deal for the Los Angeles Lakers, Guggenheim CEO Mark Walter is adding another trophy asset to a portfolio ...

Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk ...

Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

"Westward the Course of Empire"; A Survey of Three Thousand Miles of Triumphant Democracy as Seen by a Passenger on the Los-Angeles Limited. Share full article By Montgomery Schuyler.

Over the course of two and a half centuries, the empire has become the most dominant force—militarily, economically, and culturally—that the world has ever seen.

The dictatorial control over medical practice that the Belgian Government attempted to impose and that resulted in the so-called doctors' strike last spring appears to have collapsed. According to ...

THE ultimate criterion of Soviet success will be the dynamic power of the system to sustain its revolutionary momentum. That is a dictum which will be disputed by few historians. But to maintain that ...

MR. STEFANSSON shows, with characteristic force of expression and wealth of example, that every effort to colonise the frontiers of the familiar world has been retarded by fear bred of ignorance.