During his youth, Mao became a great admirer of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, from the classic Chinese novel Journey to The West (西游记).

The Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...

What is happening now is best understood as an outburst of homegrown Maoism in America. The Cultural Revolution, announced by ...

US President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk are leading a radical effort to dismantle federal bureaucracy.

In this Question and Answer interview Iran's Ambassador to South Africa, Mansour Shakib Mehr, explains the country's journey ...

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of ...

China's Chairman Mao Zedong in a black-and-white image from 1959. (Public domain in China/Wikipedia via Courthouse News) Seeking guidance for survival in a bizarre era, I turned to someone who ...

The Cultural Revolution, announced by Chairman Mao in ... They didn’t care that removing those in charge of large institutions led to great suffering, even to the point of starvation.

Foreign aid is seen as especially wasteful because the money doesn’t flow back to the American taxpayer, and is especially ...

The WNBA of my childhood— when stars like Lisa Leslie, Dawn Staley and Sheryl Swoopes made splashes on and off the court—felt like a cultural touchstone. I can remember seeing these women on ...

Answer: The Islamic Revolution of Iran emerged from a combination of political, cultural, social, and economic factors. Among the key reasons were dictatorship, widespread oppression, censorship ...