Lewis Beale

In this lawless land, to be an activist or peasant fighting against land grabs and slave labor-like working conditions is courting death.

Adapting the upbeat children’s show for Russian audiences in the ’90s proved an uphill battle in a country inclined to tragedy and melancholy. And then there was the Russian mafia.

From 1917 to 1921 it became almost impossible to distinguish between the actions of right-wing vigilantes and the agents of the U.S. government.

Stephen Schulz is just one of many convicted by a legal system more committed to conviction rates and clearing dockets than to a search for truth.

Ervil LeBaron was a murderous white supremacist and religious fundamentalist, nine of whose followers were slaughtered in a 2019 cartel killing.

It’s been more than two decades since novelist Tom Perrotta left his most famous protagonist’s future an open question. Finally he fills in the blanks.

In 1892 a Port Jervis mob hanged a Black man. It caused a commotion, says historian Philip Dray, but not a reckoning.

Louis Le Prince was a pioneer and competitor of Thomas Edison. His sudden, mysterious disappearance from a Paris-bound train has never been explained. Until now…

Moscow’s most wanted man, Bill Browder, reveals what makes the Russian president tick in his new book, “Freezing Order.”

Stumped by a series of sordid murders in the early ’70s, Montana cops brought in a pair of FBI agents who were pioneering the new science of criminal profiling.