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Set in the Soviet area of Berlin, it is a tale of high school friends parted by the cold war and the Berlin Wall. The story begins in Germany in 1961, just after the U-2 incident and before the ...

In 1983, Barack Obama was a senior at Columbia University. He was not well known. He lived off-campus, had a few close friends, and spent a lot of time reading. He went to some meetings of the ...

Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White (Custom House, 800 pp., $32.50) ...

Magazine August 2, 2021, Issue How to Win This Cold War The People's Republic of China flag and the U.S. flag fly on a lamp post along Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol.

Fresh off the heels of the Oscar campaign for Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski has been enjoying a sustained stay in the international spotlight since his 2015 film Ida became an award-winning critics’ ...

Setting a standard for Cold War foreign policy, the 1948 Republican platform and Truman at the 1948 Democratic convention emphasized “stopping partisan politics at the water’s edge.” ...

In a very real sense, the Russian full-scale invasion places Ukraine at the center of a geopolitical struggle reminiscent of the Cold War days when Germany and its capital city Berlin were split in ...

Anthony Lane reviews Dominic Cooke’s “The Courier,” a Cold War spy drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Merab Ninidze, and Anthony Scott Burns’s “Come True,” a sci-fi thriller ...

The Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947 assault rifle, or AK-47 as it is more commonly known, is one of the most recognizable weapons ever made. Its 30 round magazine and piercing looks are ...