The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

And the empire builders are almost all resetting, scaling back or struggling. Coach-parent Tapestry Inc. dropped its $8.5 billion deal to buy Capri Holdings under pressure from regulators and has ...

Throughout all of human history, empires have risen only to be overtaken and then to fall because of some combination of internal pressures and external assaults. Such broad sweeps of history are ...