Beyond

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.

The Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities, known for its blood-spattered record of torture and political killings, was backed by the CIA.

In the 1950s, the CIA funded efforts to smuggle great works of literature into the Eastern Bloc.

On William W. Watt’s experience in the aftermath of nuclear devastation.

Americans’ love affair with the South Pacific masks the US Navy’s devastating impact on the region’s people and environment.

With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

From a dying adviser to a clumsy editorial, the Revolution was a cascade of accidents and oversights.

How Lakota performers challenged the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.

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.

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."

On the preparation and aftershocks of the attack that marked the beginning of the Nuclear Age.

Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.

Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.

The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner “refugees” points to a longer history of U.S. fascination with these Dutch-descended white South Africans.

Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.

U.S.-Iran diplomacy, intelligence on South Korea's nuclear program, and fears that a reactor given to India would become a “do-it-yourself bomb kit.”

June 25 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. But the truth is that the US was a willing partner in mass murder across the peninsula.

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

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence.

Undermining international oceans governance could damage American interests.

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

Survivors of the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still fighting for recognition.

The domestic and international dynamics of the early days of the Civil War.

So why are we still surprised when the tide of blood reaches our own shores?

The Trump Administration's reasons for resettling Afrikaners echo early U.S. debates about Haiti's independence.

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

Christy Thornton and Greg Grandin discuss his new book, “America, América,” and the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America.

“Never again” and the “responsibility to protect” now license forcible territorial annexation.

Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

After the successful purges of leftists from unions, US labor leaders were enlisted by government officials to join in their global imperialist operations.