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?

For nearly two centuries, Australia pursued deliberate policies of extermination against the native people that have left scars visible to this day.

Almost nothing in American politics is weirder than the Electoral College. And in the 2016 election, it might be the cause of violent upheaval.

Some of history's most fiery "revolutionaries" were anything but, and some of them even seem to have been working the opposing side.

How did El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, wind up with the highest per capita murder rate on Earth?