History
The Anti-Godfather
How a mayor set out to save a Sicilian city from neglect and Mafia influence.
BY LAURA BACON, RUSHDA MAJEED | DECEMBER 10, 2012
We Were Pirates, Too
Why America was the China of the 19th century.
BY CHARLES R. MORRIS | DECEMBER 5, 2012
China's Copycat Cities
The People's Republic is building life-size European villages, but not for the reasons you think.
BY JACK CARLSON | NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Killer Swarms
It wasn't the Russian winter that stopped Napoleon.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Four More Years … in Exile
Can Republicans find their way out of the foreign-policy wilderness?
BY JOHN NORRIS | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
The Cult of Massoud
How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 23, 2012
Turkey for the Troops
Sixty years of Thanksgivings for American soldiers abroad.
BY KEVIN BARON, J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Mongol Hordes Take Manhattan
Before there was Red Dawn, there was Red Napoleon.
BY J.M. BERGER | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Israel 2012 vs. London 1944
What the buzz bomb can tell us about Iron Dome.
BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Rockets' Red Glare
No, Iron Dome does not prove that "Star Wars" was right.
BY YOUSAF BUTT | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
The Kissinger Transcripts
Why the former secretary of state thought the CIA was blackmailing him.
BY TOM BLANTON | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Is Bashar al-Assad Syria’s Abraham Lincoln?
The Syrian president's fans are comparing him with the hero of America's Civil War. Here's why they're wrong.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Four-Star Egos
The cult of the general from Douglas MacArthur to David Petraeus.
BY MARK PERRY | NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Scenes From a Forgotten War
What happened the last time America got bogged down in North Africa.
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Lessons From a Forgotten War
How America’s first foray into the modern Arab world can help solve its current entanglements.
BY ROBERT SATLOFF | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
The Collaborator's Song
We often ask why some people choose to resist authoritarian regimes. But the better question might be why so many decide to cooperate.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM | OCTOBER 31, 2012
A Short History of World War III
I lost the Cuban Missile Crisis and nuked the world from my couch ... and you can too.
BY MICHAEL PECK | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Still 'Secret' After All These Years
Why do Pentagon securocrats continue to censor well-known, publicly available information?
BY WILLIAM BURR | OCTOBER 26, 2012
In Praise of Apathy
It's time to stop deriding the Americans who refuse to vote. They're trying to tell us something.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 24, 2012
The Man Who Brought the Black Flag to Timbuktu
A new Islamist strongman has taken the stage in North Africa. His rising power is giving him a lot of bad ideas.
BY WILLIAM LLOYD-GEORGE | OCTOBER 22, 2012
The 9 Most Important Lessons From the Cuban Missile Crisis
Announcing the award-winning insights from our nation's closest brush with nuclear war.
OCTOBER 19, 2012
The Kingdom of Silence and Humiliation
Looking back on life under the Assad dynasty.
BY AHED AL HENDI | OCTOBER 16, 2012
Remembering the White Terror
25 years after the end of authoritarianism, Taiwan is still struggling to come to terms with its past.
BY AMBER PARCHER | OCTOBER 12, 2012
Of Myths and Missiles
What Les Gelb gets wrong about the Cuban missile crisis.
BY STEPHEN SESTANOVICH | OCTOBER 12, 2012
Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962
The scariest moment in history was even scarier than we thought.
BY SVETLANA SAVRANSKAYA | OCTOBER 10, 2012
Wild About Harry
Remember when Republicans loved Harry Truman? Me neither.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | OCTOBER 9, 2012
A Father's Secret…
And his journalist son's search for the truth.
BY SCOTT C. JOHNSON | NOVEMBER 2012
Declassified
The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.
BY PETER BUCK FELLER | NOVEMBER 2012
Thirteen Days in October
A day-by-day examination of the world's most dangerous nuclear standoff.
BY MICHAEL DOBBS, RACHEL DOBBS | OCTOBER 8, 2012
Caption Contest: What's happening in this photo of Kim Jong Un?
How these Burmese rebels got big on Weibo
BY PATRICK BOEHLER
Newsflash: The answer to the military's sexual assault problem isn't more PowerPoints
BY CAPT. NICK NETHERY
Is it safe to fly on a U.N. helicopter?
BY COLUM LYNCH
Inside Saudi Arabia's new crackdown on dissent
Meet the movement standing up to Libya's extremists
BY MOHAMED ELJARH
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