Fred Kaplan

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.

Turns out Oppenheimer’s boss lied, repeatedly, about radiation poisoning.

Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.