Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s legendary advisor plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today ...

Eliding the means while embracing the end: in classical rhetoric, the passage between the two is effected by enthymeme, whose ...

Brzezinski supported Détente, albeit with mounting tactical criticisms, until the mid-1970s. As I set out, he was seen as a ...

And while some Irish Americans support Bannon’s efforts to merge white supremacy with their religious views, most, including ...

In contemporary international relations, Iran and the continent have been mutually benefiting from the other. While Iran contributed to the stability of the continent, the continent has served as Iran ...

On the night before Thanksgiving, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant who had served with the CIA in the war against the Taliban regime, shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard in ...

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy has landed, with not so much a thud as a kind of greasy flutter. Most of the document consists of bombast, sycophancy, lies, inconsistencies, ...

Edward Luce’s biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski distills a career that shaped U.S. strategy at a defining moment of the Cold War. Luce is sympathetic to his subject. He connects Brzezinski’s experience ...

Twenty-nine people have formally served as U.S. national security adviser since the National Security Act of 1947 established the post. Originally described as the “executive secretary” of a small ...

Thirty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the Soviet Socialist Republic, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from the University of Alaska Southeast. Then-UAS Chancellor ...

The relationship between the national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pope John Paul II proved critical in 1980 in dissuading the Soviets from invading Poland. By Edward Luce The MSNBC hosts ...