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Cold War
December 19, 2014
Josh Cohen
Russia and the U.S. Need to Get Along. The World's Safety Depends on It.
November 7, 2014
James Goldgeier
To Contain Russia, the U.S. Should Return to Cold War Policies
July 25, 2014
Leo Robson
Don’t Read This Book: A History of Literary Censorship
July 21, 2014
Perri Klass
'Harriet the Spy' Predicted Our Surveillance State
A cold war children's book is surprisingly prescient
June 22, 2014
Michael Kimmage
How the CIA Stole 'Dr. Zhivago'
The novel stood in subtle opposition to much that Soviet life tried to destroy
June 18, 2014
Mark Lilla
The Truth About Our Libertarian Age
Why the dogma of democracy doesn't always make the world better
April 20, 2014
David Greenberg
U.S. Cold War Policy Was Designed by a Bigot
George Kennan's diaries reveal just how much he hated America
April 2, 2014
Ali Wyne
The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe
February 27, 2014
Esther Breger
The Most Humane Drama on Cable Is About a Bunch of Murderous Spies
February 14, 2014
Sagittarius
My Soviet Valentine
April 25, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Trial of Robert D. Kaplan
The Atlantic's absurd defense of Henry Kissinger
April 16, 2013
Jane Hu
Dear TV: 'Mad Men' Season Six: Episode 3, Post 2
“Do You Know What You’re Fighting For?”
January 30, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Spies Next Door
"The Americans" is a Cold War Thriller for Our More Ambiguous Age
October 13, 2010
Jennifer Homans
Is Ballet Over?
July 29, 1991
Charles Krauthammer
The Lonely Superpower
How to bear America's New World Burden
December 18, 1989
Christopher Hope
This Is What It Was Like to Witness the Fall of the Berlin Wall
August 31, 1987
John B. Judis
Apocalypse Now and Then
James Burnham's ambiguous legacy to American conservatism.
February 27, 1965
MagazineEdgar Snow
Interview with Mao
In a rare interview, Mao Tse-Tung conversed on topics ranging over what he himself called shan nan hai pei, or “from south of the mountains to north of the seas.”
April 11, 1949
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