Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

A new book about the first lady reveals how she and the ailing President Woodrow Wilson silenced their critics.

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

Documents show Henry Kissinger misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Salvador Allende.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

Fulbright created an exchange program which sends Americans abroad and advances international engagement and mutual understanding. Yet it’s not his only legacy.

In practice, aggressive congressional investigations of the intelligence community require consistent levels of public support.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.