Can it happen here?

What did we do in England for the month of July? In addition to crewing on a narrowboat and hiking in the Lake Country, we visited museums....

Conservative Party British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has set a general election for July 4. (We'll be in that country floating the inla...

When I share domestic tidbits, I usually know where I think they lead. When it comes to the emerging 21st century global power configuration...

Part 2: Insights from There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill; Part 1 here . The secon...

People who read the blog are likely concerned about the health of U.S. democracy. The extraordinary, even bizarre, contortions British demo...

If, as is true in this household, you get your news from the BBC, you can hardly have missed that today is the 90th birthday of the English ...

When offered nearly 19 hours of recorded lectures on World War I: The Great War on sale for less than $7, I could hardly resist during this...

In honor of a British election ( excellent pre-primer here ) in which that nation's electoral system and internal unity seem sorely test...

Popular historian Barbara Tuchman's 1958 effort, The Zimmermann Telegram, is the sort of thing that "serious" historians seld...

This book introduced me to the story of a person whose heroism I'd never before appreciated -- heroes are rare enough to be very prized ...

After San Francisco's 7.1 earthquake in 1989, a friend who writes comic theater started a new movement, the Society for the Prevention...

Someone who calls herself Penny Red writes about the British riots while listening to the violence come closer to her London flat: I...

As Josh Marshall at TPM points out, you have to appreciate "the weird mix of high dudgeon and understatement that is th...

I don't want to just gripe here all the time. I do after all, quite frequently, encounter things and people that delight me. Hence a new...

It's long been clear that, at the operational level if not at the elite level, the widespread adoption of torture of prisoners swooped u...