Civilian evacuees board a helicopter inside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975

An Elegy for the Foreign Correspondent

In a new book, Elisa Tamarkin retraces her father’s work in Vietnam and untangles the relationship of American newspaper business to the American war machine.
Painting "T. R. in Panama," showing dirty, tired workers and headstones in darkness, and Roosevelt wearing white and bathed in light.
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A Roosevelt Corollary for the World

Donald Trump didn’t bring back the Monroe Doctrine. That was the work of the 26th president — and many of the presidents who succeeded him.
American revolutionaries toppling a statue of King George III in 1776

What the American Revolution Owes the Rest of the World

A new book traces a global upheaval stretching from Philadelphia and London to Freetown and Madras.
President Jimmy Carter seated at desk in Oval Office, hands steepled.

Jimmy Carter Held the Door Open for Neoliberalism

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.
Photo contact sheet from Ronald Reagan speech on Nicaragua in 1986.
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Letting the World Scream

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.
Donald Trump speaks at a rally in July in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.
U.S. Ambassador Daniel Moynihan discusses violence in the Middle East at the U.N. Security Council
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Changing Views on Israel Isolating the U.S. at the U.N.

Americans have been isolated at the U.N. on Israel for a half century — but that used to prompt fierce debate.
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Reduction Treaty in Washington, D.C., in December 1987.

The Myth of Reagan’s Cold War Toughness Haunts American Foreign Policy

Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.