Over a third of Americans believe that global warming is a hoax, and over half believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These are examples of conspiracy theories—explanations for important events that involve secret plots by powerful and malevolent groups.

COVID-19 has been ruthless in choosing winners and losers around the world.

25 years ago, nearly a million people were massacred in Rwanda. At the time, it went largely unreported.

For the last few decades in the Middle East, the policy of western powers — led by the United States — has been to ensure the flow of oil

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) left a legacy of daring and innovation that has influenced American military and intelligence thinking since World War II.

By the fall of 1944, it was obvious that the war in Europe was in its final year. In France, British and American forces had broken out of Normandy and were driving toward Paris and the Rhein.

The madness that was the Democratic Republic of Congo during the period 1960-1997 sprang in large part from massive, clandestine intervention by the western powers.