Beyond

A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.

The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy.

Lauded for his strategic insights, the former secretary of state is better remembered for his callousness toward the victims of global conflict.

Fierce disagreements over Zionism have played out from the movement’s inception among Jews, including community leaders who worried it would spark antisemitism.

Many of the CIA analysts who spotted the earliest signs of al-Qaeda’s rise were female. They had trouble getting their warnings heard.

How America's failures in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis of the 1970s hurt U.S. security and contributed to the current war.

In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on'.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.

Justifying civilian casualties has a long history.

Long before Greenland’s shifting ice threatened sea level rise, it doomed one of the military’s most audacious Cold War projects.

From Jefferson's viewpoint, Native peoples could claim a title to their homelands, but they did not own that land as private property.

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

The relationship between the DJ and his MC derived from a Jamaican “toasting” tradition and its related “sound clash” culture.

A new book sorts through the fate of the leader of the fight for Congolese independence.

While condemning terrorism should be a no-brainer, "moral clarity" has not guaranteed sound U.S. counterterrorism policy.

In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.

When Congo gained independence during the Cold War, secret U.S. actions undermined its young democracy. It’s time to make up for that.

Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.

The murder of independent Congo’s first prime minister, the subject of a new book, had lasting psychological effects on the whole continent.

He expressed support for Israel's bloody invasion of Lebanon, saying the US would be similarly justified retaliating against Canadian cities for militant attacks.

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.

How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

You can't be neutral on a tour bus rolling toward the foot of Masada.

To address these atrocities and treat Jewish victims, survivors, and families with dignity, we must confront Israel’s subjugation of Palestine.

Canada's politicians accidentally honored a Nazi immigrant. The U.S. has frequently done the same.

As world leaders scramble to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from escalating, it is often forgotten just how close the Yom Kippur War came to all-out nuclear war.

The comparison between last weekend's Hamas attack and 9/11 is apt.