I am 100 percent certain that unpredictability redounded to the benefit of the United States.” The Washington Post columnist ...

President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to block the government from disbursing funds authorized by Congress for a ...

President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to block the government from disbursing funds authorized by Congress for a ...

At the height of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Nixon ordered an emergency airlift of resupplies to a struggling Israeli military, and memos from the period show Kissinger pushing back against the ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Against that backdrop, Johnson gave a final “State of the Union” address to Congress the week before Nixon’s inauguration ... over the end of the Cold War, and shepherded the birth of ...

The Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and satirist attacked lies, weasel words and half-truths wherever he saw them. His time in the military was formative.

Nixon could not let the gold window pass. The cold calculus of human lives dictated that a great man should let thousands die so that billions may live without fear of nuclear war. Nixon wanted to ...

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.

The free trade orthodoxy is being transformed into something else. Just to review a bit of recent history: Former President Joe Biden maintained Trump’s China tariffs with little political opposition.

The U.S. military’s recruiting troubles came just as it was attempting a fundamental shift in its mission. For decades, the ...

As diplomatic conflict and trade-war talk ramps up, the continent’s often fractious leaders could end up sharing an ...