Beyond

Driven by fears of the rise of communism, the U.S. intervened in elections across the globe. In Latin America, the consequences are still being felt.

An alliance between Jewish activists and congressional neocons made Soviet Jewry a key issue in superpower relations—and reshaped American Jewish politics.

NATO expansion - the trigger for Russia's attack on Ukraine?

During the American Revolution, the British 29th Regiment had a tradition of including Black drummers into its ranks.

Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.

Giles Tremlett tells the story of the foreigners who joined the first line of defense against fascism in Europe.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

Over the past century, the United States came to rely ever more on economic coercion—with questionable results.

Yes, the Russian leader is an authoritarian aggressor. But different decisions at key points by the U.S. might have made him less so.

Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.

A decade or two ago, opposing NATO expansion to Ukraine was a position espoused by pillars of the American establishment. What happened?

A 1763 massacre by colonial settlers exposed the the irreconcilable contradictions of conquest by people concerned with civility.

Unable to bear the shame of being captured as a prisoner of war, Shoichi Yokoi hid in the jungles of Guam until January 1972.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.

How the CIA tried to trick the Soviets with sex dolls (but ultimately got screwed).

It is in the hidden spaces of American empire that the realities of power can truly be seen.

How the authors of the Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power away from FDR and stop his “socialist” New Deal.

Extending that compassion today could reverse past wrongs.

The American exchange organizers were unaware that the German pupils and staff were charged with an explicitly propagandistic mission.

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.

How a sitting, elected national government found itself in the position of having to buy its own country.

There are important differences between Xi Jinping’s China and the Soviet Union, but the Cold War still offers clear strategic guidance for the U.S.

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.

The 2015 Paris Agreement represented a shift in the climate regime towards "new governance," expanding the roles of nation-states and non-state actors alike.

Learning the right lessons of the past.

After Japan's surrender, U.S. troops rebelled against a plan to keep them overseas, staging dramatic protests from the Philippines to Guam.

Contractors are increasingly doing dangerous work helping our troops — without any of the recognition.

A conversation with two journalists who were among the first to uncover evidence of a deadly rampage.

With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.