Politics

Siegfried Marcus, Karl Benz and the General Motors streetcar conspiracy: why the real answer is to leave the car standin...

October 1973: the Egyptian crossing, the American airlift and the oil embargo that sent America back to the age of the h...

How Dubai fines, Dutch bicycles and the 2003 invasion of Iraq all serve one goal: squeezing the car user towards public...

States push people toward public transport, but electric and hybrid cars are no environmental fix — the real answer is t...

From a village childhood to the gallows: how Sayyid Qutb's twisted ideas, American intelligence links and secret organis...

Among all the weapons of psychological warfare, rumours hold a special place. How a silly rumour about the artist Mohame...

Vasily Zaytsev, the sniper of Stalingrad — and how the duel with Major Erwin König that never happened became one of his...

How Nazi Germany turned Nostradamus's quatrains into a weapon of propaganda in World War II, and how Britain answered wi...

Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man, a forged briefcase and a whisper campaign convinced Nazi intelligence the Allies wo...

From the Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC to the Mongol terror and Qutuz's counter-strike, the war of minds is as old as war...

How a secret society in Serbia recruited a lost young man named Gavrilo Princip and set off a world war that killed 70 m...

How Charles Masterman and Wellington House built the first modern propaganda machine, recruiting Conan Doyle and H. G. W...