List of Cold War articles
-
ERIE, PA - AUGUST 12: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak to supporters at a rally at Erie Insurance Arena on August 12, 2016 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Trump continues to campaign for his run for president of the United States. (Photo by ) Trump’s ‘Ideology Test’ Could Bring Back a Hated McCarthy-era Law
Donald Trump's plan would dredge up a Cold War-era law that critics say betrayed U.S. values without improving security.
-
ISE, JAPAN - MAY 26: (L to R) U.S. President Barack Obama walks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the Ujibashi bridge as they visit at the Ise-Jingu Shrine on May 26, 2016 in Ise, Japan. In the two-day summit, the G7 leaders are scheduled to discuss global issues including counter-terrorism, energy policy, and sustainable development. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) The U.S. President Who Finally Went to Hiroshima
Why visiting where we dropped an atomic bomb in 1945 is the only way to grasp the depths of human cruelty that transpired there.
-
A picture taken on June 3, 1961 shows US President John F. Kennedy (R) smiling with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev after a meeting at the US embassy in Vienna. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Voices Carry: How Careless Campaign Bombast Can Undo Administrations
It matters not only what you do as a candidate, but also what you say.
-
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 07: President Barack Obama (2nd-L) listens to a question from an attendee at the University of Chicago Law School April 7, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama addressed his U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland as he hopes members of the Republican party will give Garland a hearing and a vote in Washington. (Photo by ) The Realist Playbook Is Perfect, Except for One Thing. Reality.
Michael Mandelbaum’s latest tome of hardball IR theory is stuck in Westphalia. Realist or not, President Obama isn't buying it.
-
TAIPEI, TAIWAN - JANUARY 14: Honor guards prepare to raise the Taiwan flag in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall square ahead of the Taiwanese presidential election on January 14, 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. Voters in Taiwan are set to elect Tsai Ing-wen, the chairwoman of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, to become the island's first female leader. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) Unwinding Taiwan’s Cold War Legacy
While President Obama visited Cuba last week to restore relations with the Castro-run island and put an “end the legacy of the Cold War” in Latin America, democratic Taiwan is still strangled by Cold War legacies.
-
GettyImages-461129154 The White House Just Made It Easier to Travel to Cuba
The White House just made it easier for Cuban baseball players to work in the United States.
-
Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech in Red Square in Moscow, 09 May 2007, during the annual celebration of the end of World War II. Putin took a veiled swipe at Estonia 09 May 2007 during celebrations of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. "Those who are trying today to diminish this invaluable experience, to desecrate memorials to war heroes, are insulting their own people, sowing discord and new distrust between states and people," Putin said at a massive military parade on Red Square. AFP PHOTO / ITAR-TASS / PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE (Photo credit should read DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images) Are We Entering a New Cold War?
It’s not a strong Russia we should fear, but a weak one.
-
TO GO WITH Oly-2012-PRK,FEATURE (FILES) This file photo taken on April 15, 2012 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un saluting as he watches a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder and his grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, in Pyongyang. He lacks the toned physique of an Olympian but "dear respected" leader Kim Jong-Un will be the inspiration when North Korea's athletes go for gold at the London Olympics. North Korea are aiming for a record number of medals in London in what would be a timely boost for Kim, the new face of the country's ruling dynasty and its all-pervasive personality cult. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/GettyImages) Communism Wins Again: North Korea Invents Hangover-Free Alcohol
Scientists in North Korea claim they have invented hangover-free alcohol.
-
GettyImages-490501878 Washington and Havana Mail In Closer Ties
The United States and Cuba announce that normal mail service will resume between the two former rivals.
-
Syria1957 Russia Is Repeating Cold War Mistakes in Syria
In 1957, the Soviet Union’s ally Egypt intervened in Syria’s messy politics. It didn’t go well. Why does Putin think this time will be different?
-
kamikaze Does It Matter Whether Japan Says Sorry for Its Wartime Behavior?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.
-
plane Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History
-
SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA - MARCH 18: People celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of the decree on the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, on March 18, 2014 in Sevastopol, Crimea. Crimea, an internationally recognised Ukrainian territory with special status, was annexed by the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. The annexation, which has been widely condemned, took place in the aftermath of the Ukranian revolution. (Photo by Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images) Cold War Symbolism: Not Just for the 1950s Anymore
You don't have to be a musty old relic to know that symbolic gestures still have a place in the fight to defend freedom and democracy from Russia.
