John le Carré revolutionized and defined the spy genre with literary masterworks like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and ...

In March, historic rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia announced that they had agreed to normalize relations. This news was significant because it signaled a possible change in regional order in the Middle ...

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The Cold War, as we are taught, was an existential struggle between two irreconcilable systems: Communism vs. democratic capitalism. A worldwide conflict emerged from the clash over Eastern Europe’s ...

The 20th-century Cold War era of geopolitical tension between the United States, the Soviet Union and their allies also produced some gripping thrillers. This week’s Title Search puzzle is focused on ...

In “New Cold Wars,” David E. Sanger tracks the shifts in U.S. foreign policy as competition among the great powers re-emerges in the 21st century. By Justin Vogt Justin Vogt is an executive editor of ...

"November 6, 1971, was the day I lost my faith in the comforting certainty that the adults in charge know what they are doing,” Peter Dunlap-Shohl writes in a key scene from “Nuking Alaska,” his ...