The political and financial risks of the 1970s are back in the White House, Edward Price writes in a guest commentary.

As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live television, his grave demeanor hinted at a pivotal moment, and ...

Trump has sought to decrease diplomatic tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his war with Ukraine, while ...

Nixon believed in the Cold War order. He understood power, respected its limits, and wielded it through diplomacy, secrecy, and calculation.

I n the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. Half ...

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

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War Powers Resolution attempted to constrain presidential power, but presidents have exploited its many loopholes.

In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union.

Nixon operated a clandestine unit inside the White House—the so-called plumbers—to ... too, the Vietnam War discredited the public’s ready deference to authority of the earlier Cold War era.