Eisenhower warns against the “military–industrial complex”

“We will measure our success not only by ...

Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger

NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL MARK RUTTE KEEPS A VARIETY of mementos in his office. There is a sprawling photograph of the North Sea from the vantage point of his hometown in the Netherlands, a kanji gift fr

I AM A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flag-waving patriot with an abiding love of the U.S. Those two statements might seem surprisin

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war.” ...

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re