a 19th century German strongman once described as “the finest specimen of manhood.” He didn’t invent weight training, but he was the first to turn bodybuilding into a global celebrity brand.

The expansive new Sainsbury Wing foyer ushers visitors into the gallery’s exhilarating rehang ...

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Scaling buildings might sound reckless — but it could also be the ultimate mindful movement. Our fitness director took on ...

In The War at the End of the World, a novelized account of a pious peasant uprising in 19th-century Brazil ... and impotent Dominican "anti-communist" strongman Rafael Trujillo, and the petty ...

As European governments prevaricate or remain silent in the face of mass starvation in Gaza, NGOs like the Freedom Flotilla ...

Pope Francis filled the role of an authoritative progressive voice in international politics, able to speak up effectively against the rise of strongman ... since the 19th century to Greece.

In the 19th century, Christian socialist thinkers ... or that plebeians were falling for strongman populism and lining up behind Latin American–like strongman caudillos. Rather, Senator Church ...

The Daley Machine, like Tammany Hall in New York and the federal spoils system that dominated national politics through much of the 19th Century ... everyone except the strongman and his circle.

In Mr. Vargas Llosa’s view, his masterpiece was “The War of the End of the World,” based on a doomed peasant uprising in 19th-century Brazil ... at 14 to the strongman as a tribute.