He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.

Nixon sabotaged Vietnam peace talks. Reagan asked Iran to hold the hostages. We never know about these things until years later. So: What will Trump do?

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

When I was young, the left I was a part of helped elect Nixon. Please don’t make a similar mistake today.

For 33 years, the retiring Vermont senator and a top aide have quietly but doggedly been working to bind the many wounds of a war that touched the lives of nearly every Vietnamese family. This is what public service is.

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam war. He spent his life asking questions about it.

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

Expecting the brutally repressive state to liberalize magically the way Vietnam did is a pipe dream.

Her case and others have become a crucial test for the sanctuary movement, which is betting that moral protests still have sway in Trump's America.

No matter how he leaves the White House, we'll never be rid of Trump—and all that he represents about America.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory.

In an era of extremist government, there may be something to be learned from an extreme devotion to political beliefs.

Since Vietnam, many war films have lost their critical edge, preferring to engage with the experience of war rather than its politics.

How the U.S. managed the failure of the Vietnam War 40 years ago

Is Foreign Policy Any Different When It's Crafted by Veterans?