The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

In one of his first acts upon reassuming the presidency last month, Donald Trump issued an executive order directing ...

Though these ideas were approved by military leaders, the operation was ultimately rejected by President Kennedy, who ...

PW spoke with the bestselling author about her new picture book, which has received a starred review from PW, in which a young girl makes a deep connection with a peanut vendor in her native Cuba ...

I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

The Vatican’s three-way dialogue with Cuba and the United States goes back further and reached its most critical moment at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962 ...

During a crisis, the news media and voting public will judge the actions of those who hold or aspire to office.