Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

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 ...

A new book that explores a vice president's secret visit to a Canadian vacation spot on the north shore of the eastern end of Lake Ontario for a casual weekend of sailing, drinking and golf with some ...

It’s appealing to say that disaster relief should be left to states and localities. The less appealing reality is that they ...

The Cold War is entering its 26th year with no ... The United States welcomed the opportunity; President Richard M. Nixon had written: "We simply cannot afford to leave China outside the family ...

A flurry of accusations, finger pointing and political grandstanding dominate the headlines as the trade war with China escalates. Global markets responded with roller-coaster fluctuations and serious ...

Kevin MacDonald has a hard time letting John Lennon and Yoko Ono steal the spotlight in "One to One: John & Yoko." When they ...

One of his biographers said that Richard Nixon was one of us. And so he was. He was a boy who heard the train whistle in the night and dreamed of all the distant places that lay at the end of the ...