Michael Kilian

This weekend, once again, we will celebrate 1776 and the beginning of America. And, once again, we will be 22 years off the mark. It was actually here in these...

I don't know when in history anyone ever did actually beat swords into plowshares, but in a just-opened exhibition at the Australian Embassy here, there is what must be easily...

Award-winning African-American playwright Lynn Nottage's career has taken her from the rough streets of Brooklyn to Manhattan's Music and Art High School to Brown University to the Yale School of...

What with the highly sentimental dedication of the World War II Memorial on the National Mall and the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, our television screens, newspaper front pages...

He was the nation's greatest booster of "family values." He was also America's first divorced president. But Ronald Reagan's marriage to second wife Nancy was as close and strong a...

The job of director of the central intelligence was created by the National Security Act of 1947, which envisioned an apolitical individual who would coordinate the nation's intelligence agencies and...

There is nothing like a dame. Especially when her name is Judi Dench. Dame Judi (she was accorded an Order of the British Empire in 1970 and made a Dame...

If there is a problem with Tennessee Williams' wonderful works, it's that all too often they are produced as star trips. "Streetcar Named Desire" made a star of Marlon Brando...

MariAnn Curta said she was "freaked out" during much of her son's recently completed nine-month tour of duty in Iraq, where he drove a fuel truck in the Sunni Triangle....

It was one of the most glorious of empires, lasting 1,142 years, yet most Americans know little about it. If anything, they associate its name, "Byzantine," with political intrigue. Rightly...