Legal experts pounced President Donald Trump’s proposal of sending U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to international prisons ...

Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone ...

Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of sending U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador, but experts say ...

I disappeared for three weeks to visit Soviet Jewish refuseniks during Passover. Forty years later, the lessons I learned ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among the greatest Russian writers, will be long read and remembered, but not as a social and ...

After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...

“The Gulag Archipelago,” an account of the Soviet Union’s system of labor camps that is at once beautiful and horrifying; “The Oak and the Calf,” an often very funny memoir of ...

Stalin was keen to exploit the region's mineral riches to support the rapid industrialisation of the Soviet Union. To that effect, he set up gulags in the region, using political prisoners as ...

As the sky began to darken, Vladyslav Rudenko slid a pair of underwear into his hoodie and pretended to go for a walk. The 16 ...

The Trump negotiated agreements found the sweet spot where Muslims’ and Jews’ most deeply held beliefs impel them towards ...