Richard Nixon’s White House was a rampart of pettiness, paranoia, racism, and cruelty. Populated by sycophants and soldiers of the US right-wing, it was also the domain of one of history’s most ...

A new biography by presidential historian Robert Dallek reveals the rivalry and collaboration between Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. Based on previously unreleased ...

Some consider Henry Kissinger a master statesman who advanced American interests by deftly navigating complex international affairs. Others argue that his achievements were exaggerated, preferring to ...

The cataract of news and pontification about Henry Kissinger's death reminds me of an email I sent out nine years ago with some notes on a book that chillingly documented — mostly from Kissinger's own ...

In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is completing the second-volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger, mentions ...

Nixon and Kissinger were, of course, concerned with what happened to South Vietnam after the 1972 election. If Saigon fell too soon after they withdrew, it would become all too obvious that they had ...

Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023, at age 100, exercised more than 50 years of influence on American foreign policy. I am a scholar of American foreign policy who has written on Kissinger’s ...

Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a distrusting President Richard Nixon. That trust, combined with Kissinger’s intellectual heft and deft ...

In his long and distinguished career, Henry Kissinger made many decisions that history may judge harshly. But oversimplifying and exaggerating complex geopolitics was not one of them. Kissinger ...