The senator from Vermont is reminding us who we are as Americans.

Historian and journalist Clay Risen in his new book, “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America” (Scribner, 480 pgs., $31 hardcover) takes his readers through a panoply of ...

Ali's own prime had been cut short by three and a half years of banishment from the ring for refusing to be drafted into the Vietnam War ... Muhammad Ali nee Cassius Clay was the poster boy ...

Mary Todd was one of the most educated women of her generation, which made her a successful First Lady during the American Civil War ... As the daughter of Cassius Marcellus Clay, the politician ...

Known both for his boxing prowess and his political views, Ali was a prominent Civil Rights figure, a convert to Islam, and a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Because Ali regarded ...

lands a left hook that pops back the head of Chicago’s Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) in the 175-pound inter-city Golden Gloves title bout at Chicago Stadium on March 25, 1959. Clay, only 17 ...

It was supposed to be a Clay crowd. In the Boston Herald, Bud Collins had complained that nobody wanted Jones to win. “It is a holy war,” he wrote. “Cassius, the savior of boxing ...

Sudanese citizens celebrate in Port Sudan after the Sudanese army deepened its control over the capital, Khartoum, on March 27, 2025 [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters] Sudan’s civil war could ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An outbreak of factional fighting in northern Ethiopia has led Africa’s second most populous country back ...

“Warfare,” the new film co-directed by Alex Garland (“Civil War,” “Ex Machina”) and former US Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, knows it’s going to give audiences a rough ride, so it starts off ...

“I’m very concerned about the possibility of a civil war. This nation is divided. It sometimes seems there’s no way out. People don’t believe in democracy anymore. They don’t believe in ...