Henry Kissinger

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.

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.

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Diplomatic relations, domestic repression. Plus: the truth about Joseph Welch, and a bit of family history.

On the early career of the actor-cum-politician who changed America.

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.

An enemies list isn’t a weapon against ‘the Deep State.’ It was a tool Richard Nixon used to create a deep state of his own.

Japanese were interested when Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest in 1960. Will they be also interested in the Nolan film released today in Japan?

On Walter Isaacson’s biographical project.

Americans have been isolated at the U.N. on Israel for a half century — but that used to prompt fierce debate.

The Spiro Agnew Edition.

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.