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Edward Luttwack’’s The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.

If you get to the top, only to find that the voice hounding you with charges of inauthenticity is your own, what then?

Missed opportunities, roads not taken—these are the central themes of Stone's new documentary. 

Can the two central images of Poland during World War II—a country of heroes and a country of collaborators—ever be combined?

Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

Have histories of famines caused by totalitarianism become a distraction to the new politics of hunger?