Walter Russell Mead

As the American Jewish community grows increasingly divided over U.S. policy toward Israel, much of the academic and policy focus has shifted to the far larger...

Americans, claim Butman and Targett in this brisk and fascinating book, spend too much time thinking about the Pilgrims and not enough time thinking about the...

Until now, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan has been best known to students of U.S. foreign policy through former Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s...

Vaïsse’s biography of U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, reminds readers just what an extraordinary phenomenon this...

Frum thinks that Donald Trump is a bad man and a worse president and that his presidency endangers the American republic.

There are few government agencies as controversial as the CIA, and few researchers have brought as much passion and determination to understanding it as Prados.

Despite occasional cries from the academy that domestic politics are—or should be—irrelevant to foreign policy, practitioners and policymakers know that the two are...

It is time to take another look at Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, the period of American history stretching, roughly, from the assassination of President...

The 2017 U.S. National Security Strategy attempts to integrate President Donald Trump’s aversion to trade agreements with his emphasis on American sovereignty at...

Leffler is one of the most accomplished and distinguished historians of U.S. foreign policy, and this collection of his most influential and important essays over...

Ulysses S. Grant was a brilliant general and, as president, did more than any other American leader to defend the newly freed slaves of the South after the Civil...

What Happened is readable and in places quite charming, but it is neither a literary masterpiece nor a work of overpowering political wisdom. It does, however,...

The American left’s embrace of divisive identity politics has, in Lilla’s view, contributed to the rise of Donald Trump and to an outbreak of angry and dangerous...

Stephens has written an unusual biography; he is less interested in rescuing Thomas from oblivion than in illuminating what his rise and fall say about a changing...

In the history of U.S. politics, few meteors have burned as hot or hit as hard as Steve Bannon.