Semyon Gluzman, who has died aged 79, was the first Soviet psychiatrist to blow the whistle on the Soviet Union’s abuse of psychiatry – for which he spent seven years in the gulag.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who founded an antivaccine group and once likened the immunization of children to a holocaust, is transforming a government that long ...

Frank Dikötter has been described as “the historian of China”, and one can see why. His previous books offer powerful and incisive analysis of the Mao years ...

From Vienna, Daria Boyarskaya—who once assisted Vladimir Putin during summit meetings with Donald Trump—is coordinating election monitoring in Hungary.

President Donald Trump this week said he believes he’ll have “the honor of taking Cuba” soon. Without declaring a formal ...

The National Women’s History Museum offers hundreds of biographies of women whose contributions helped shape America. From ...

Dolores Huerta and the late César Chavez are both credited with leading a movement that got growers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions for farm workers.

A wide main street stretches out with wooden storefronts, swinging saloon doors, and the occasional horse tied to a hitching post. A stagecoach drives by ...

Luxury retailers, hereditary monarchs and the heirs to the Walmart fortune dominate the list of the world's wealthiest clans ...