Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...

B ooks were smuggled on boats, trains and trucks, concealed in food tins, baby nappies and even the sheet music of travelling ...

The world might think the US president’s choice of words is curious, but it makes total sense when you look at the revolutionary spirit of the founding fathers, says Robert McCrum, who explains why ...

More than three decades after the end of the Cold War, we might finally be shutting ... for an alternative to the Communist dictatorship's propaganda, it is far less convincing at a time when ...

Some ruminations on that Signal chat. The news outlets seem to be focused particularly on the incompetence indicated by the leaked Signal chat involving ...

Foreign aid has been dismissed as soft-hearted waste, but it has always been used to build American influence and security.

As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

Voice of America was a powerful soft power tool for decades. Trump’s rejection of soft power could also allow China, in ...