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U.S. President Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-Lai toast each other at the end of a banquet in the Great Hall of the People in Peking, on Feb. 21, 1972. Former Congressman Alan W. Steelman remembers ...
Over a whirlwind four days of diplomacy designed to end the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and prominent ...
On Sept. 11, 1973, a military junta seized power in Chile. A month later, WNET/Channel 13 was promoting what it billed as ...
Zelensky, not Putin or Trump, is the impediment to peace. Until he is gone from power, Ukraine’s days are numbered, and the ...
The meeting with Trump helped give the Kremlin leader much of what he wanted, including putting Russia on an equal footing with the U.S.
The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries ...
Vladimir Putin has met five US presidents over 25 years. But jazz and fishing have given way to threats and tension.
What began as U.S. economic pressure aimed at forcing Russia to make peace with Ukraine and then escalated into nuclear sabre-rattling, is now headed toward a very Cold War-like summit: a face-to ...
When people talk about a new Cold War, they tend to assume they know exactly what the original Cold War was and when it ended. Renowned historian Anders Stephanson argues that the standard Cold War ...
Walk down Moscow streets, however, and it looks nothing like a city in the grip of a death cult. But neither did Berlin in the early 1940s, with its cabarets and heady consumption.
Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...