Henry Kissinger

Covert U.S. intrusions into Chinese airspace were common for decades.

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

An alliance between Jewish activists and congressional neocons made Soviet Jewry a key issue in superpower relations—and reshaped American Jewish politics.

Learning the right lessons of the past.

On the laughing emptiness at the center of the Republican Party.

The U.S. can’t win wars for countries.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history—and won't help us address our current political crisis.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

The women of May 19th bombed the U.S. Capitol and plotted Henry Kissinger’s murder. But they’ve been long forgotten.

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.