One broadcast turned a secret standoff into a global shock. This episode looks at John F. Kennedy’s October 22 1962 speech, how Washington rushed to prepare it, and how the sudden revelation of Soviet ...

It had been a long time since I thought of those scary days during the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war, but Donald Trump’s wild rhetoric toward Iran over Easter ...

Historical analogies are never exact, and some can be misleading. With the announcement by President Trump of a naval blockade or quarantine of the Strait of Hormuz, the specter of another Cuban ...