Robert McNamara

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam War. He spent his life asking questions about it.

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

If the U.S. government is going to wage unending war, it should at least get the public on its side.

Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

Leslie Gelb supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers. He explains what Steven Spielberg's new film gets wrong.

The bullshit, the truth… and Trump.

Why the rifles jammed.

In the past 3 months, two people in the US have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change US policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire.

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

On the moral courage of Daniel Ellsberg.

After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency.

America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.