Flags in the United States are fairly straightforward. The nicknamed "Stars and Stripes" flag has stayed almost the same for more than two centuries, save for the addition of new stars for new states ...

To be a European is to have learned from history that what starts off as patriotic fervour can, under the wrong kind of pressure, curdle into something far uglier. Most Europeans thus treat the flags ...

Paper flag for Simchat Torah, 1900, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. LGLou/Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Daily ...

A quick look back at moments in history when countries argued over similar flag colors, showing how even simple symbols can ...