Iran-Contra scandal

Oliver North and his cronies in the Contra support operations put in motion a clandestine counter-intelligence apparatus to disrupt the flow of information.

Reagan's commitment to deregulation, aggressive military spending, and diminished oversight created a cocktail of corruption that was worse than Watergate.

Anticommunist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who popped up throughout Latin America over the past half-century, won’t be missed.

The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

Bombshell revelations won’t hurt the former president with his core supporters. We have only to look at Oliver North to know why.

From My Lai to Desert Storm to WMDs.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

Failing upward with Oliver North.

William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight.

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis.

PBS NewsHour coverage of the hot wars of the Cold War.

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

Biden’s assistance to William Casey, Reagan’s CIA director, and the rehabilitation of the intelligence service in general has had tragic consequences.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.