Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

Not seen since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, the age of phrenetic shuttle diplomacy has returned with Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff. Witkoff, the President’s Chief negotiator, is ...

The relationship between the national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pope John Paul II proved critical in 1980 in ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power ...

Kissinger’s 14th and latest book, Ending the Vietnam War, reflects just how tormented he remains over the war and the criticisms of his role in it, first as Nixon’s national security adviser ...

The final offensive (the Ho Chi Minh campaign) was launched on April 26. It was the largest military campaign in the 20 years ...

Kissinger, who was national security advisor at the time and later secretary of state, held ultimately successful talks with Zhou that paved the way for Nixon's visit. “We never forget our old ...

If the US-China economic equation is today hindered by strategic competition, an India-US economic relationship is well ...

Richard Nixon to John Mitchell, Charles Colson, and Henry Kissinger, June 29–30, 1971 (as compiled from the White House tapes ...

James Mann is author of a series of books on U.S. foreign policy, including “Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet.” Most Americans never knew his name. He was not a regular ...