Direct violence refers to an event—war, famine, an aggressive physical act—that poses an immediate threat to life. The ...

St. Patrick’s Day offers an annual reminder that, in terms of ancestry, no US state is quite as Irish as New Hampshire — not ...

Steven Bixby who subscrubes to views held by the sovereign citizen movement was sentenced to death for the murders of two law ...

The same patterns are visible all over Europe ... That's also why the Anglo-Saxon first-past-the-post voting system won’t do the trick. It may be good at producing stable one-party governments ...

Whenever I am asked a difficult question about Scottish history, I point out I am merely a history writer and not  a professional historian ...

Federal courts may—and should—supply complete relief to a victorious party, but that can be done without granting strangers the same judicially enforceable rights that a judgment provides to a ...

YouTube has as deep a selection of new movies as anyone, as long as you’re willing to pay to stream. But the video streaming service also has a great, if hard-to-find, selection of legal free ...

The eighth-century historian Bede wrote that Easter, the English word for the holiday, came from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eoster, the goddess of spring and fertility. The yearly celebration of Jesus's ...