July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

Avner Landes discusses his new book 'The Delegation,' an account of the adventures - and dark fates - of an actor and poet ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

Built at a time when the Soviet Union was trying to project naval power on par with the West, the Admiral Kuznetsov carried ...

As we celebrate the successful flight of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station and back, I ...

Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers Sr., the CIA U-2 pilot whose capture by the Soviet Union in 1960 became one of the ...

Recreating the Soviet Union’s rationed food lines will hardly improve the lives of the poor in New York City.

The evolution of Soviet VTOL aircraft tells a story of technological daring, strategic necessity, and Cold War rivalry.

If socialism does not serve the purposes for which it was intended, that is, moving towards a freer and more equal society, ...

Life in the Soviet Union was filled with strange contradictions ration cards and black market jeans, communal apartments, and ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

An immigrant family's journey from Soviet oppression to American freedom, highlighting how good governance transformed New York City and why socialist policies risk undoing progress.