Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

The cyclical nature of the US dollar, driven by fiscal and monetary policy constraints, suggests a significant downward transition is imminent. Historical trends show dollar downturns favor gold, ...

The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close ...

To understand the visceral reaction of many in the US to the whole notion of infrastructure privatization, it is important to look at history. Infrastructure has been the binding agent without which ...

President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in ...

The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of many changes that American currency has undergone since 1792, when the ...

Immigrants – some Americans say they can’t live with unauthorized and temporarily protected migrants. They complain that these people place too much stress on state and local services, take American ...

This winter’s Beijing Games marks the second time that the Chinese city has hosted the Olympics. They will also be the first city to have hosted both the Summer (2008) and Winter Olympics. Paris is ...