Twenty years ago, John B. Judis, then an editor of the New Republic, currently the editor-at-large of Talking Points Memo, and…

I’ll be home for Christmas, you can plan on me, please have snow, and mistletoe, and presents by the tree,…

The private-eye hero of my just finished new political thriller, The Apocalypse Mask, is a 30-something ex-Army Ranger who left…

Let’s construct a game with the following outcomes: win, loss, draw. Team A has only two possible outcomes, either win…

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This…

On this date, at 7:55 a.m., Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Their…

Henry Kissinger began contributing to America’s national security during World War II. After fleeing Nazi Germany in August 1938 at…

On Nov. 11, 1918, the fighting ended on the Western Front. “The Great War,” as it was known for a…

At the end of World War II, there were millions of refugees in Europe. Some, like the Italian Primo Levi,…

At her death on April 8, 2013, she was the Right Honorable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG,…