Beverly Gage

If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.

Why the far right embraces foreign tyrants.

As director of the FBI for decades, J. Edgar Hoover helped build a massive, professionalized national security state and hounded leftists out of public life.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.

Institutions meant to secure peace, from NATO to the U.N., date back to Truman’s Presidency. So do the conflicts threatening that peace.

Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.

Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.