When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Henry Kissinger
Displaying all articles
The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
Traveling death squads. Sadistic torture techniques. Stolen babies. The US helped it all happen by aiding Argentina's military regime in the 1970s, according to newly declassified documents.
Presidents Day celebrates the American president – not only as a political leader, but as a moral leader. But can a president be a person of strong moral character, as well as a strong leader?
Argentina and the US have never had the cosiest of relationships. Could opening up old secrets help bring them together?
The infamous Muldergate scandal of the 1970s was the exemplar case of apartheid’s "unorthodox diplomacy" of buying influence around the world.
Top contributors
-
Reader, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
-
Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
-
Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield
-
Political Science Profesor, Torcuato di Tella University
-
Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
-
Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance, University of Washington
-
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
