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Vietnam War
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Will Trump’s Strikes on Iran Unleash a Global Arms Race?
Since World War II, nonproliferation efforts have limited the number of countries with nuclear weapons. That may be about to change.
Posted inBooks
Secretary of Enablement
Robert McNamara’s subservience to Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.
Posted inBooks
How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats
Charles Trueheart’s account of his father’s battles with a once-close fellow Foreign Service officer in Saigon illuminates the American tragedy in Southeast Asia—and should be considered one of the finest accounts of the war.
Posted inPolitics
Hubert Humphrey’s Liberalism for Our Time
“Liberalism always finds itself beleaguered at a moment of radical polarization,” journalist and historian James Traub writes in his deft and thoughtful biography of Hubert Humphrey to be published next month. While the right wing has organized around the destruction of liberalism and the far left denounces liberals as gutless sellouts, Traub argues that studying […]
Posted inPolitics
Ukraine’s Bogged-Down Counteroffensive
A military intelligence source explains why advanced weapons from the West might not be the answer.
Posted inFeatured, June 1975, Magazine
Leaving Vietnam: The One Man We Remembered
In April 1975, Americans didn’t want to think about the Vietnamese friends we left behind.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
What the Vietnamese Will Ask Kamala Harris When She Visits
Lecturing in Ho Chi Minh City recently, I learned how urgently bright young people there want to understand what’s happening here. Their future may depend on it.
Posted inPolitics
Spike Lee Tells a Different Vietnam War History
His new film depicts the struggle of black veterans who fought for a country that never treated them right.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Why Can’t Trump Just Tell the Truth About Richard Blumenthal?
It’s wrong for the president to tell lies about a U.S. Senator to foreign leaders.
