The president's assassination 150 years ago sparked outpourings of grief across the globe

After 150 years, there may finally be enough support in South Carolina to consign the Confederate banner to the past.

Tony Blair offered a qualified apology for the Iraq War, but found it harder to say sorry for removing a dictator.

Trump’s new secretary of health and human services intends to make life better for physicians.

Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees and beg for asylum have felt Douglass’s agony, and thought his thoughts.

Advances during the “first mass killing of the 20th century” have saved countless lives since.

The practice once promoted debate and compromise, but now, the 60-vote requirement is tantamount to a legislative death sentence.

Technology delivers nostalgia on demand.

HBO’s Confederate takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

Decertifying the nuclear deal and naming the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group will only boost its most hostile elements.