Over the holiday weekend the United States turned 244 years old ... America was a nation in 1776; today she is an empire. Therefore, one could ask: do empires have lifespans?

The unexpected negotiations between the United States and the Russian Federation that began in Saudi Arabia in February were strange. These off-line discussions in Riyadh, which included foreign ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...