Beyond

Journalist Rachel Nolan investigates tens of thousands of forced adoptions and the U.S. policy that enabled them.

Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.

A new work of nonfiction revives a history that some would sooner see forgotten.

The special relationship between the United States and Israel was cemented by the support offered by Lyndon B. Johnson throughout the sixties.

Marco Rubio and Glenn Grothman want to recognize the contribution of Air America, the CIA airline that supported secret wars in Laos and Cambodia.

Americans have been isolated at the U.N. on Israel for a half century — but that used to prompt fierce debate.

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then came democracy’s fight against reaction.

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

"Frustratingly, Talmudically, Jewish food is simply what Jews eat," she writes.

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?

What 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

The president once said “Israel could get into a fistfight with this country and we’d still defend” it. That is now clearer than ever.

Laos was collateral damage in the U.S.' secret war. The wounds are visible in the land and in generations still waiting on justice.

The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. The resemblance is intentional.

The first barbed wire border fences were proposed to keep out Chinese migrants. They’ve been debated for over a century.

The troubled history of the famous poinsettia plant.

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

Segregated lives of pride and peril on Firestone's Liberian plantations.

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended.

A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.

In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.

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.