Henry Kissinger

The Iran War as America's very own Suez crisis.

The American soccer story can’t be told without deep immigrant roots, political influence, and the drive to achieve.

As a Polish émigré and fervent Polish nationalist, Zbigniew Brzezinski focused most of his fear on the Soviet Union.

What lessons can we take from Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War?

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

Donald Trump is once again threatening war with Iran just six months after bombing the Islamic Republic in June.

The documentary depicts the kind of maverick journalism we desperately need in our authoritarian times.

The intellectual world that Norman Podhoretz created.

Documents reveal the Ford administration's Efforts to block revelations of CIA covert operations in Chile.

How Condor launched a wave of cross-border assassinations and disappearances in Latin America.

Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by dehumanization and destruction.

James R. Schlesinger was only head of the CIA for six months, but he nevertheless ranks as the least popular director in the agency’s history.

People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Diplomatic relations, domestic repression. Plus: the truth about Joseph Welch, and a bit of family history.

On the early career of the actor-cum-politician who changed America.

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.