History is quite a mediocre means for humans, us, to make sense of our collective and personal memory.  

Hysterical Media Promoted Fake News About Russia

As families get ready to gather and enter the season of festivity, forgetting their problems, it is also time to reflect on how to improve the New Year

On Tuesday, Time magazine announced its annual Person of the Year Award, honoring what it called "Guardians...who have taken great risks in pursuit of greater truths."

Embattled Victorian Liberal Party figure Paul Mitchell has resigned his posts, following the furore over text messages in which he allegedly described Indians as "curries".

In 1943, Tucker painted "Victory Girls". It is a painting described as a grotesque night image of the young women who roamed the city, dressed in the victory colours of the allies, “making themselves available to the soldiers”.

A police officer at the time recorded these "before-#metoo" events:

It looks like the liberal President Macron has turned to his right-wing predecessor for help with the protests raging across France.

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Over the last two decades, academics and pundits have tried to answer this question. Most begin their search for the birth of the modern world somewhere over the last few centuries: the discovery of the Americas, the invention of the steam engine, perhaps the outbreak of the French Revolution.