And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening ...

Some of the documents from previous releases have offered details on the way intelligence services operated at the time, including CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet ...

The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War II. Hungary, however, had a ...

This notion of a symptomless disorder gave it tremendous value to Soviet officials in the 1970s and 80s, who wielded it ...

About 2,200 files consisting of over 63,000 pages were posted on the website of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The vast majority of the National Archives’ collection of ...

The United States is not in a cold war with China, and that’s precisely the problem. Unlike the Soviet Union, the Chinese ...

Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky survived the Nazi concentration camps and went on to write one of the most important books ...

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...