FP Weekend

A new history of the Cold War unwittingly exposes Russian distortions of the past.

Avoiding digital dictatorship may mean rethinking our relationship with machines.

Dollar dominance is here to stay, if the United States can keep it.

There is danger lurking just beneath the water, and many Americans are still searching for their Chief Brody.

The unfinished line traces a fractured region still beset by competing imperial projects.

There has rarely been a safer window for the transition of security on the continent away from America.

Silence on the official history of 1939 to 1945 has led to a flowering of creative interpretations.

From the Habsburgs to modern Washington, anxiety underlies empire.

In the long Asian wars, being the victor in 1945 meant little.

For centuries, French leaders have used the iconic museum to cement their place in the world. Macron is no different.

What’s emerging is not yet a new consensus. But neither is it as incoherent as current rhetoric would have you believe.

History offers painful lessons for Trump’s expansionist desires.

Kwame Nkrumah’s life demonstrates that the end of colonial rule in Africa is central to modern history.

A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

A cynical realism resonates today, but there is a model for fusing power and values.