Endless blackouts, empty shelves and crumbling streets - this is the grim reality faced by millions of Cubans as the once-prospering Caribbean nation teeters on the brink of collapse. As the US ...

Over the past few weeks, however, the Communist Party of Cuba has been on its back heels like never before. For starters, Cuba is a very poor nation. Over the past several decades, Cuba’s ...

China did not avoid communist collapse by preserving the old model exactly as it was. Instead, it kept one-party political control while gradually opening parts of the economy, allowing private ...

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel marches during a rally to protest the killing of Cuban officers during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro outside the U ...

While commemorating the 250th anniversary of the US over the weekend, President Donald Trump made a speech that echoed a bygone era. “Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” he said at a ...

For more than a century, scholars and policymakers have debated whether democracy and communism can coexist. Capitalism and communism clearly can: Modern China provides the most vivid example of ...

Since 1991, historians have been monumentally challenged to explain the collapse of the Soviet Union and Communist rule in Russia. But a deeper problem, less often addressed, is the real nature of the ...