Henry Kissinger

Even if today's anti-war protestors couldn’t tell you who the Berrigan brothers were, the Catholic Left’s shadow looms large.

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.

The biopic starring Helen Mirren shies away from the moral implications of Golda Meir’s decisions.

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

The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.

The man who changed America.

The Pentagon's official history says that a heavy bombardment by B-52s in 1972 pushed the North Vietnamese to return to negotiated peace. What are the facts?

A decade or two ago, opposing NATO expansion to Ukraine was a position espoused by pillars of the American establishment. What happened?

Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.

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

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by dehumanization and destruction.

James R. Schlesinger was only head of the CIA for six months, but he nevertheless ranks as the least popular director in the agency’s history.