Martin Cruz Smith, who transported readers behind the Iron Curtain in his multifaceted crime novel “Gorky Park,” a Soviet-era blockbuster that topped bestseller lists and kicked off a long-running ...

In Far Down Below #4, our heroes find unlikely allies in Soviet underdwellers, but ancient predators lurk in the depths with ...

Inflation rose 2.7% in June (compared to June last year), which isn’t a crisis, but it isn’t great either. This is the highest reading since ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

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BP announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into the Gulf of ...

Under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has attempted to expand its influence in the region – with mixed results.

The one commonality that exists between those espousing a communist-socialist ideology is that people are expendable, and ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...