The secretary of defense who served John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson saw his reputation plummet along with America’s prospects in Vietnam.

In 2005, the eye of Hurricane Rita made landfall at the Texas-Louisiana border. The Category 3 storm was responsible for more ...

In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who ...

President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they ...

President Dwight Eisenhower spoke at the United Nations about the destructive nature of the atomic bomb and urged the peaceful use of atomic energy. This is a portion of the speech known as "Atoms for ...

Many presidents and vice presidents fall out by the end of their tenures, a fraught dynamic that goes back to the early days ...

Donald Trump is almost certainly not dead. But a lot of people are talking about whether he might be, and what would happen if he did die. It’s quite rare for a president to die in office, but a ...

McNamara is remembered as a war hawk, the cold-blooded director of a conflict in which some 58,000 Americans and millions of ...

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2025 with 98 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury ...

Past presidents understood that National Guard deployment should only be a measure of last resort. A deployment can cost as ...

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Trump administration is rewriting history by wielding the tools of censorship and erasure. At the National ...