On this 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is worth reflecting on the horrors of history ushered in with the ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. General MacArthur had a history of disregarding ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The city of Los Angeles is moving ahead with plans to build a $2.3-million iron fence around MacArthur Park. The ...

So, here we are on the precipice. Not just CounterPunch, but the country, even the 30% who refuse to believe it. Indeed, we may well be off the precipice, suspended in air above the chasm, like Wile E ...

Drake Maye helped get the Patriots on the board in the first quarter against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday with a touchdown pass to DeMario “Pop” Douglas. Not only was it New England’s first ...

Harvard Math professor Lauren K. Williams, a recipient of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, holds a geometric model she used to teach triangulations of a polygon to school children at the Cambridge Math ...

A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A ...

Johns Hopkins University political scientist Hahrie Han has won a 2025 “genius” grant, the MacArthur Foundation announced Wednesday. Han, 50, is one of 22 winners internationally who will receive an ...

On Wednesday morning, as has been happening annually since 1981, a small number of people have had their lives changed. This year, there are 22 of them, a group that has been formally announced as ...

A cartographer, a composer, an archaeologist, a neurobiologist and an astrophysicist are among this year's MacArthur Fellows, one of the most prestigious cash awards given to "extraordinarily talented ...

Just days after Vladimir Putin stood beside Xi Jinping at Beijing’s grand military parade following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Russia’s two largest state-owned enterprises, Rosatom ...