Themistocles (ca. 528-462 BC), an Athenian political leader, was a brilliant commander and statesman who defeated Persia at sea and made Athens a great power. Themistocles was the son of a middle-class Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother. Ability...

The Defence Update, which John Howard launched last week, was a seminal document in the development of Australian strategic policy. This is all the more important to recognise given the desperate and somewhat disgraceful efforts of former defence bureaucrats Hugh White and Paul...

Byline: Keith Monroe Does history repeat itself? All the time. At least, the same problems keep coming up. Take, for instance, the issue addressed by the Aesop fable concerning the grasshopper and the ants. The feckless grasshopper wanted to play all...

It has become accepted wisdom heading into the 2008 Presidential campaign that the closer you get to New York, the less people tend to like Rudy Giuliani. As Mr. Giuliani demonstrated at a fancy April 23 fund-raiser for the Manhattan Republican Party at Cipriani ...

There really is competition in pairs at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Despite two mistakes, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin won the short program Wednesday night with a personal-best 62.73 points. That's more than a point higher than they got for the short program in...