For a long time, the standard history books told us a very simple story about a guy named Christopher Columbus who sailed the ocean blue in 1492. You probably grew up hearing that he was the brave ...

In the summer of 1930, the U.S. secretaries of war and the Navy developed War Plan Red, a 94-page document laying out detailed plans to strangle the naval and trade capabilities of the United Kingdom ...

On a July afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within one of America’s great estates. An assemblage of distinguished jurists, Ivy League professors, nonprofit leaders, ...