What the world did not know was that America and China's leaders wanted to talk, if only about the Soviet Union, their common enemy, and Moscow's Warsaw Pact allies. Enter nine American table ...

and Warsaw Pact countries (which morphed into the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance or what came to be known as the Comecon group). The Cold War was a confrontation of ideologies: democracy ...

and that Russia has a legitimate interest in not only carving out a sphere of influence but re-creating the old Russian empire in the space of what was once the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact.

In the past 20 years, unless you count obituaries of pals gone behind pit wall, I’ve written rarely about cars. If it weren’t ...

Michael Smuss, the last known living fighter from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising ... A former artist and master of languages, the 99-year-old Smuss was lucid-minded and sharp-tongued as he shared ...

Esther Bratt, 96, survived WWII's Vilna ghetto and her great granddaughter shared her story at Pennsylvania's Holocaust ...

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This surprisingly entertaining film examines the 1975 fiscal crisis that nearly led the city to bankruptcy. The movie’s conclusions remain relevant today. By Alissa Wilkinson Tom Hardy is a ...