This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

At a time of growing conflict, threats and censorship, the shortlist for this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award highlights the courageous work carried out by individuals and ...

Moldovan historian and politician Octavian Ticu remembers when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, a seismic event that enabled him to become one of the first ...

Israel is trying to portray images of the Hamas leader’s final moments as those of a fugitive. His supporters have seized on the same visuals to glorify him as a fighter.

They are schooled, like the man himself, in the dark art of plausible deniability ... he announces his intention to spend the first day of a second term acting as “a dictator”—you could read each as a ...

Shot in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, it depicts the Spanish as having had a civilising impact on the Americas, bequeathing a proud heritage of Catholicism and art, including lofty Baroque ...

She subsequently called him the same thing herself, saying voters don't want “a president of the United States who admires ...

the regime used posters as propaganda to spread its ideology and legitimize its authoritarian policies, posters became a primary weapon in the anti-dictatorship struggle, conveying messages of ...

The artist’s quiet, bittersweet reflections suggest the possibility of redemption through the the kinds of artistic labor that allow humans to shape a sense of reality.

Weems is interested in memory and history and how the two interweave, and, importantly, who tells these stories and in what ...

While secular art projects around the saint are flourishing in the U.S., it is worth remembering that nothing in her work can ...