Beyond

An explosive new book delves into American Jewish McCarthyism from the 1950s through late 1970s.

The former secretary of state is responsible for virtually every American geopolitical disaster of the past half-century.

‘The Achilles Trap’ reexamines the relationship between Hussein and four U.S. administrations.

In sending military aid to Ukraine, America’s values and security interests are aligned.

Too often, U.S. support for open navigation has devolved into military conflict.

In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.

Neither side of the border has seen the benefits it was promised.

Mexico's resistance to the institution of slavery made it a land ripe for African American immigration in the 1800s.

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.

According to Geoffrey Levin’s ‘Our Palestine Question,’ divides over Israeli policy aren’t new – they existed before American Jews fully embraced Zionism.

In the 1940s, the Irgun went to the heart of American culture to garner support for its campaign of violent insurrection.

My research shows that this tradition runs deep.

Journalist Rachel Nolan investigates tens of thousands of forced adoptions and the U.S. policy that enabled them.

Comparing the struggles of Mexican and Greek immigrants to the United States.

Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.

A new work of nonfiction revives a history that some would sooner see forgotten.

The special relationship between the United States and Israel was cemented by the support offered by Lyndon B. Johnson throughout the sixties.

Marco Rubio and Glenn Grothman want to recognize the contribution of Air America, the CIA airline that supported secret wars in Laos and Cambodia.

Americans have been isolated at the U.N. on Israel for a half century — but that used to prompt fierce debate.

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then came democracy’s fight against reaction.

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

"Frustratingly, Talmudically, Jewish food is simply what Jews eat," she writes.

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?

What 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

The president once said “Israel could get into a fistfight with this country and we’d still defend” it. That is now clearer than ever.