An Empire Once Called Françafrique. Let’s start with the French neocolonial imperium in northern Africa, which can teach us much about the way our world order works and why it’s fading so fast.

Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of ...

An Empire Once Called Françafrique Let’s start with the French neocolonial imperium in northern Africa, which can teach us much about the way our world order works and why it’s fading so fast.

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming history's richest person. His ...

With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, a roomful of 60-year-old men nearly broke out into a brawl because by November 1943, America had changed.

Hassan Ismail of the Idlib Museum examines bones from a Byzantine AP. The empire fell in 1453 and was replaced by the Ottoman Empire. Abandoned Byzantine-era settlements known as “Dead Cities ...