John F. Kennedy

Its construction nearly started a war, but its fall happened almost by accident.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

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?

Learning on tablets at The People’s House.

The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leaves out his father's role in pushing false flag plans for a war with Cuba.

Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.

A common US-centric narrative holds that the crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.

The Trump administration Is borrowing from a failed cold-war era playbook.

The FBI reads James Baldwin.

Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.

How the U.S. Post Office took point on civil defense.

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

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.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

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

Israel is attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, but Tehran’s secret path was blazed by the Israelis.