On this day 74 years ago, the United States was drawn into a war—a world war—for the second time in nearly 30 years.

What defense can there be, then, against the awful forces that have now been unleashed with the utter terror of the atomic bomb?

Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s

A few small but significant steps toward ending the suffering of Rohingya Muslims adrift on the Andaman Sea have been made in recent days Responding to broad international criticism of previous decisions to turn away boatloads of Rohingya landing on their shores Southeast Asian regional powers Mal

Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton.

World War I stories include several about enemies who discovered one another’s humanity. On the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into the war, this is one.