Ronald Reagan was President 30 years ago, but the long shadow he cast still covers American politics.

"Surely it cannot be necessary to go on killing these defenceless people on such an enormous scale." – Winston Churchill, 1908.

Decades before the Holocaust, the German Empire committed the 20th century's first genocide.

The Japanese-American internment camps serve as a stark reminder of what angry, frightened Americans are capable of.

The alt-right has come from nowhere to reshape Western politics. Who are these people, what do they want, and where do they want to take the U.S.?

At the end of World War II, the U.S. opened camps of its own, where perhaps a million German prisoners died in secret.

The United States invaded Russia, Germany tore itself apart over religion, and hunger became a weapon in Africa. These domestic conflicts render America's Civil War puny by comparison.

The welfare state gets a lot of criticism, but what seldom comes up is how things used to be before programs like SNAP and Section 8 came along.

"There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the American Union." – Adolf Hitler

Half a century after his death, Martin Luther King Jr. remains a hero to millions of people. But with every hero comes a dark side.

Julian Assange has blasted a hole in American politics by spilling some pretty dirty secrets. Now, he's stuck inside the Ecuadorian embassy, avoiding a likely prison sentence. What do we know about this man, and will he ever be free?