The United States was on the brink of war with Germany when President Woodrow Wilson wrote to Col. Edward M. House, his friend and trusted adviser, with important news.
“Here is an astounding dispatch which I want you to see,” Wilson wrote in a letter...
When democracies fail, they often do so gradually at the hands of elected leaders who enjoy robust support from voters, according to Milan Svolik, associate professor of political science at Yale. In fact, since the 1990s, executive takeovers have...
The “old goddess” is a paradoxical character in Maya mythology. She is the grandmother who raised the infant gods, but in most accounts, she hated them, and finally tried to kill them. Despite her significance, she rarely appears in ancient Maya art.In...
“The Trojan Women,” a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, depicts the plight of the wives and daughters of Troy, who await their fates after the Greek army has destroyed their city and slaughtered their men.An all-female production of...
President Trump provided a stark reminder of the stakes of nuclear politics when he warned nuclear-armed North Korea to stop making threats or “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
North Korea’s acquisition of a nuclear bomb marks a...
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 opened the Yale Climate Conference this week by comparing the threat of rising global temperatures to the danger posed by a rogue state acquiring nuclear weapons.
While our political leaders rightly respond...