Henry Kissinger

The man who changed America.

The Pentagon's official history says that a heavy bombardment by B-52s in 1972 pushed the North Vietnamese to return to negotiated peace. What are the facts?

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

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

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

Diplomatic relations, domestic repression. Plus: the truth about Joseph Welch, and a bit of family history.

On the early career of the actor-cum-politician who changed America.

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.