Richard Aldous is Eugene Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Bard College and presents Persuasion’s “Bookstack” podcast. His books include Reagan and Thatcher, Schlesinger and The Dillon Era.
Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, one of al-Qa`ida’s most durable assets may be a name rather than a commander, training camp or headquarters. Usama bin Ladin has been dead since 2011, and his son Hamza was declared killed
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has built an ideological case for suicide attacks that differs sharply from the religious justifications used by many militant
An Argentine lawmaker has filed a criminal complaint seeking an investigation into how Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro entered Argentina and flew to the United
In John Updike’s 1992 novel Memories of the Ford Administration, the historian non-hero of the story just can’t finish writing his biography of James Buchanan because the fifteenth president of the United States
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