Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...

Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy Roman Empire, which even ...

The Mongol conquests killed millions of people but afterwards established a brief era of peace and prosperity as trade spread across their large expanse. In the long run, however, the Mongols proved ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Columnist Brett Seaton argues that the older age demographic of Congress is being fiscally irresponsible with government spending. Credit: Jesse Zhang Our leaders are old. So what? You may argue that ...

America’s zeal for anti-imperialist projects abroad has created a new imperialism of its own that is expansive and provocative of conflict. I am of the latter school. America’s zeal for ...