Everyone is familiar with Cervantes’ Don Quixote, an old man who has lost his wits through over-immersion in chivalric romances and become disconnected from ordinary reality. He sees windmills as ...

A plaque in honor of the illustrious author of 'The Gulag Archipelago,' an immense story of a Soviet concentration camp, ...

Seizing people off the streets requires an archipelago of detention camps while ... the US is in danger of creating a Latin American gulag.

WHEN SOLZHENITSYN WROTE his great three-volume classic, The Gulag Archipelago, it had a huge impact, particularly in France. There, since the Second World war, a great part of the reading classes had ...

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus said, “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” Donald Trump’s heart is full of rage, committed to vengeance. As a result, so is much of America.

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Erich Alfred Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and was credited with ...

The Trump administration has warmly greeted an offer from El Salvador to detain both deported undocumented migrants and criminal U.S. citizens in a sprawling high-security prison that human rights ...

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A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...