Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to ...

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?

The small, staid Imperial Academy of Sciences became the active, expanded U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The four or five prominent universities spawned 33 new ones scattered across the expanse of the ...

Gorbachev justified his “restructuring” or perestroika by invoking the Soviet Union’s founding father ... Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and the new date fell between his and Washington ...

Since many states also celebrated Abraham Lincoln's birthday and the new date fell between his ... reprehensible and admirable traits. In the Soviet Union, however, most citizens found it ...

Even before fully consolidating his power, Khrushchev began probing opportunities in the Third World, signaling a bold new direction. In 1955, the Soviet Union funded the construction of the Aswan ...