A Council on Foreign Relations symposium on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II suggests two critical lessons for policymaking today.

A 1951 CIA report on parasites and tumors spread online in March 2026 — but it was declassified years ago and does not reveal a cancer cure.

Historian Tim Weiner on how ideology is the enemy of intelligence, not just for Trump in Iran but for every American president.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine four years ago launched Europe's biggest conflict since World War II, causing immense suffering for civilians and harrowing ordeals for soldiers while rewriting the ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazil does not want a "new Cold War", President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday, urging the Trump administration to treat all countries equally ahead of a trip ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

Amounting to essentially a death sentence, Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in prison for violating China’s national security law. What can Trump do when he meets with Xi Jinping in China later this ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

The Coast Guard plans to open a $300 million icebreaker facility in Juneau, Alaska—but it is not clear exactly when. Seattle is approximately 1,500 to 1,800 miles (2,400 to 2,900 km) from the Arctic ...

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that ...