Cold War

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  • Dissecting Cheney

    The vice president's fantasy of world domination via control of oil stems from his formative years in the shadow Cold War.
  • Not just a socialite, but a gritty survivor

    Susan Mary Alsop, who died last month, faced a personal crisis when the KGB tried to smear her influential columnist husband, Joseph. A friend recalls her courage in the face of that ordeal.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Olympics: It's time for women's gymnastics to grow up. Plus: LeBron James shows that the NBA way takes your breath away. And: More.
  • The secret history of secrecy

    The closing of the American government.
  • "A dangerous step backwards"

    Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
  • Why the kid-glove treatment for China?

    Corporate interests are trumping human interests in President Bush's handling of the spy plane crisis.
  • A hero's retreat

    Dad hit us, Mom watched, and then -- a miracle.
  • Minds wide shut

    A new book makes the CIA's Cold War skulduggery look upright compared with the self-deceptions of the intellectuals who were on the agency's payroll.
  • A Black Sea affair

    On a Soviet cruise ship in 1985, we evaded the KGB agent trying to foil our international interlude. But in the end, we lost, and on a sad Moscow night years later, the truth came out.
  • Shooting truth in the back of the head

    Here's what the Russian government doesn't want you to know about the war in Chechnya.
  • Seymour Hersh

    The man who broke the story of Vietnam's My Lai massacre is still the hardest-working muckraker in the journalism business.
  • It takes one to know one

    The irony behind liberal Jacob Weisberg's smear of conservative scholars who have documented Communist spying in the U.S. is that he is using the tactics he wrongly charges them with -- "neo-McCarthyism."
  • An unnecessary crock: Michael Lind's "Vietnam: The Necessary War"

    For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never die.
  • Crashing the top

    Women at elite universities may have broken the ivory ceiling, but they're still battling old-fashioned discrimination.
  • A conversation with Sergei Khrushchev

    The son of Russia's leader during the Cold War will soon be an American.
  • Disloyalty of Democrats

    It's hardly a surprise that China was able to steal our nuclear secrets, given the kind of people the Democrats have put in charge.
  • Paging Joe McCarthy

    There's a conspiracy to undermine the government. Sound familiar?
  • Newsreal: Once more to the death squads

    The chief beneficiaries of America's latest "war on drugs" in Colombia will be drug-trafficking right-wing death squads.
  • One nation, undercover

    "Underworld," Don DeLillo's ambitious attempt at the Great American Novel, prompts one to quote Henry James: "I liked all of it, except the whole thing."
  • When "civil rights" means
    civil wrongs

    The real carriers of the civil rights banner
    are those who are helping end affirmative action.
  • "A Pretty Scary Situation"

    Despite the end of the Cold War, there are still far too many nukes out there. A former CIA director has a plan to get rid of them.
  • The Saint

    Val Kilmer's brooding, guilt-ridden Simon Templar in "The Saint" is enough to make you long for the cheesy playboy of the original.
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