Tag: Cold War

Ken Burns' new documentary, "The Vietnam War," has resurrected debate over perhaps our nation's most controversial conflict, with most pundits sharing the view that the war was a needless, corrupt waste of time, treasure, and lives. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Vietnam War was necessary for victory in the Cold War

Steve Levy · September 21, 2017 5:18 pm

Let Trump Be Trump?

Philip Terzian · September 16, 2017 11:08 am

Let Trump Be Trump?

Philip Terzian · September 15, 2017 8:00 am

CNN reported the contents of Obama's letter to Trump upon handing over the presidency to the Republican on Inauguration Day. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama urged Trump to continue post-Cold War foreign policy in Oval Office letter

Kyle Feldscher · September 3, 2017 2:16 pm

Roy Moore, one of the Republicans running in the primary for the Alabama special Senate election, said it's possible to make the argument that America is the "focus of evil in the modern world," as former President Ronald Reagan characterized Soviet Russia during the Cold War. (Mickey Welsh /The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Roy Moore: ‘You could say’ America is the ‘focus of evil in the modern world’

Melissa Quinn · August 10, 2017 6:17 pm

To understand the Democrats' hypocrisy, one must travel back in time to the presidential election of 1984. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)

Beltway Confidential

Russian dirty tricks? Democrats wrote the playbook on foreign government collusion

Jennifer Kerns · July 13, 2017 6:44 pm

The Freedom for Americans to Travel to Cuba Act of 2017 was co-sponsored by 52 other senators. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

National Security

Majority of senators support bill to allow travel to Cuba

Anna Giaritelli · May 26, 2017 1:54 am

Obama is right to end preferential treatment for Cuban immigrants

Beltway Confidential

Obama is right to end preferential treatment for Cuban immigrants

Mark Grabowski · January 13, 2017 4:57 pm

Now for the Post-Post-Cold War Era

Thomas Donnelly · January 13, 2017 6:30 am

The aim of the bill is to "expose and deter unlawful and subversive foreign interference in elections. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Congress revives Cold War tool to counter Russian propaganda

Joel Gehrke · December 2, 2016 6:36 pm

WATCH: Ronald Reagan’s 1985 Thanksgiving message about liberty

WATCH: Ronald Reagan’s 1985 Thanksgiving message about liberty

Laura Castro · November 24, 2016 1:00 pm

How was William F. Buckley to know then that history would judge John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower correct, and Buckley too rash, in relation to war and the Soviet Union? (AP Photo)

Torch songs

Noemie Emery · November 8, 2016 5:03 am