Smith spent a long, stressful career buying and trading government debts in emerging nations. This “financial Indiana Jones,” as he was called by Forbes magazine, received death threats, placed his own life in jeopardy by trading in... Read More

Private Military Corporations (PMCs) is the sanitized name for the mercenary armed forces that play strong and dangerous roles in wars throughout the world. Often these hired armies, when combined with the large number of support staff... Read More

The Central Intelligence Agency is a bloated, unresponsive bureaucracy that exists to serve itself and cannot fulfill its important intelligence-gathering role, which was the reason for its creation by President Harry Truman. This... Read More

Politicians would have a better understanding of why people vote the way they do if they grasped the impact of religious diversity in their communities, states, and the nation. Religion has frequently been the overlooked variable in... Read More

John A. Walker Jr., one of America’s most notorious spies, is incarcerated in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, where he is serving a life sentence. In 1985, Walker was arrested for selling highly classified information to... Read More

Former officials of the Bush administration are guilty of war crimes because their aggressive interrogation techniques are torture, as defined in the Geneva Conventions and other legal statutes, the author claims. Michael Ratner,... Read More

Henry Kissinger was likely the most controversial Secretary of State in American history, reviled by his detractors but respected by heads of state throughout the world. Unlike several earlier Kissinger biographies, Suri presents a... Read More

The 1972 presidential election, a landslide but short-lived victory for President Richard Nixon, was a crushing loss for Democratic standard-bearer George McGovern and for his party. James O’Hara, the Democratic convention... Read More