Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

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ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

While Trump escalates tensions with friends and foes alike, global realities could force his hand towards cooperation.

Filmmaker Bess Kargman provides an engaging look at a top music writer who has come to be a mogul but still acts like a song hustler. Not many non-performing contemporary songwriters are quite ...

It’s just over nine months since the SNP-Green power-sharing deal collapsed. Exactly nine months since he became First Minister heading a minority government in a hostile parliament. Seven months ...

That term ‘society,’” the executive director told a local publication, “feels a bit insular and stuffy.” When British Prime ...

But such sporadic demonstrations of sanity are not the real reason for his exaggerated popularity on the right. The Shrekian senator is not only unusual because of his bizarre athleisure attire and ...

Not many non-performing contemporary songwriters are quite interesting enough to sustain a 90-minute documentary, but then, not many are Diane Warren, one of the great characters of modern Hollywood.

On Feb. 18, 1965, the famed Cambridge Union at Britain’s University of Cambridge held a debate between James Baldwin, the ...

In the opening lines of “Cultural Criticism and Society,” Theodor W. Adorno declares, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is ...