Jimmy Carter

The legacy of Nixon's strategic ambiguity of acknowledging China's claim to Taiwan without fully committing.

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

Created in 1867, the short-lived office was mired in the ongoing American strife after the Civil War.

A new book traces the rise of the Israel lobby and the challenges it has faced as global criticism of Israel has intensified.

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.

One speech permanently influenced American diplomacy—and not for the better.

The current political moment is reshaping the narrative about the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.

As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.

A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats.

Since the 1950s, the GOP has simplified the causes of inflation in order to blame Democrats.

Black internationalism broadened our politics of solidarity.

Moscow and Washington trapped themselves in a cycle of fear over Iran.

The end of the big-city columnist.

Climate activists are no fans of electric utilities. But the alternatives that they often prefer will not deliver infrastructural change at the scale we need.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

A conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. apology to the Hawaiian people.