On Aug. 1, 2025, the Office of the Historian published National Security Policy, 1985–1988 Part 1, which focused on President Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of the Strategic Defense Initiative and Strategic ...

‘Some people say I’m very simplistic, but there’s a difference between being simplistic and simple,” Ronald Reagan told a visitor to his home in January 1977. “A lot of very complex things are very ...

Foreign Policy is a global affairs magazine offering diverse perspectives on issues shaping nations and the world. President Donald Trump has handled the war with Iran in an unconventional fashion, to ...

In the late 1970s, in the wake of America’s defeat in Vietnam and the disastrous presidency of Jimmy Carter, Thatcher partnered with Ronald Reagan to reverse the “correlation of forces” that appeared ...

Forty years ago this week, Ronald Reagan stood up from the table in Reykjavik, Iceland, and walked out on Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan went to Reykjavik, Iceland, to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party. The two nations were still deep in the Cold War, and ...

Two anti-communists. Clandestine visit -- "It's time to stroke Ronnie" -- Two schools of thought -- Evil empire -- Nixon detects Gorbachev's "steel fist" -- Abolition -- Conservative uproar -- The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Berlin ...