Revolutions throughout history have often had a charismatic central figure at their core, such as Lenin, Mao or Castro. But beginning in the late 20th century, a wave of protests and revolutions ...

The cognitive revolution has radically changed the way we see and understand the mind. Source: Matt Palmer/Unsplash A school counsellor in our neighbourhood recently helped a young kindergarten pupil ...

On this Fourth of July, with federal troops still on the ground in Los Angeles, our own American Revolution provides a surprising lesson on the perils of military overreach in domestic affairs.

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What do you think you know about the American Revolution? Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, ...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, when 13 American colonies dared to reject British rule over their affairs. Filmmaker Ken Burns spent a decade making a ...

In seven decades of boldness and risk-taking, my mother’s single greatest regret is marching for the 1979 revolution in Iran. She was a 23-year-old medical student, newly married and pregnant for the ...