The Korean War is often remembered for being forgotten, sandwiched between WWII and the Vietnam War. But the deadly Cold War ...

In this video I talk about the genesis of climate change in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. This ...

Homing in on 1985, dubbed by the New York Times “the year of the spy,” after dozens of American government moles working for everyone from the CIA to the U.S. Navy were arrested for espionage, Atkins’ ...

The document is less a summary of the country’s main diplomatic orientations than a political program with a global focus.

It’s past time to recognize Beijing as our foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational cold war.

His insane overreaches are giving Americans a new appreciation for free trade, immigration, and international alliances.

The heart of the report is a pledge to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence.” In the past, militarists invoked the Monroe Doctrine largely out of habit, a ...

NATO may field some of the most advanced military technology on the planet, but scattered across the alliance are weapons old ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

They say every spooky story starts with a friend of a friend, and that’s precisely what makes urban legends so addictive.

From virtually the moment he and his band of bearded rebels rode into Havana in 1959 until his death from natural causes in 2016, the most iconic leader in Latin America was Fidel Castro. With his ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...