Beverly Gage

As director of the FBI for decades, J. Edgar Hoover helped build a massive, professionalized national security state and hounded leftists out of public life.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.

Institutions meant to secure peace, from NATO to the U.N., date back to Truman’s Presidency. So do the conflicts threatening that peace.

Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.

Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.