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The Orwell Foundation announced the finalists for its Orwell Prizes, with 17 books in contention for the awards given annually to outstanding works of political writing. In the political writing [...]

Most Americans remember Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a ruthless narcissist who waged war against his many enemies and killed his fellow countrymen by the thousands. More than that, he [...]

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If there's anything we at Kirkus love more than compiling our best books lists at the end of the year, it's putting together a preview of coming attractions in the [...]

In her new memoir, ''Newsroom Confidential,'' Margaret Sullivan argues that traditional ideas about reportorial objectivity need to be re-examined in an era of constant assaults on truth. NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL: Lessons [...]

Byline: Steve Coll and Adam Entous The Fall of the Islamic Republic The secret history of America's final defeat in Afghanistan. On April 14th, President Joe Biden ended the longest [...]

Byline: Steve Coll Faking It Last December, Variety and other news outlets reported that Donald Trump planned to serve as an executive producer for 'The Celebrity Apprentice' while he was [...]

Byline: Steve Coll A Long Year It was only a year ago that voters delivered Donald Trump to the Presidency. It feels much longer. Trump's Twitter storms and erraticism can [...]

Byline: Steve Coll Madmen Theories In 1969, Richard Nixon, about eight months into his Presidency, grew frustrated with the North Vietnamese leadership. The President wanted to negotiate an exit from [...]

Byline: Steve Coll The Politics of Anger In June of 1968, following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson set up the National [...]

Byline: Steve Coll Trump's Intervention On August 7, 1998, Al Qaeda suicide bombers struck two U.S. embassies in East Africa, killing two hundred and twenty-four people, most of them Africans. [...]

Byline: Steve Coll Info Wars Last Monday, according to the Times, President Donald Trump, meeting in the White House with congressional leaders, told a story about voting fraud that he [...]

The article examines the fall of Afghanistan in 2021 which marks the final defeat of the U.S. A meeting was held between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and U.S. President Joseph Biden in June about the state of the country. The Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan signed in February 2020 highlighted the U.S. pledge to withdraw all combat troops by May 2021 if Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are repudiated by the Taliban. It cites the stance of Biden about U.S. military in Afghanistan.

Byline: Steve Coll The Fear Factor In mid-September, Rafia Zakaria, a Pakistani-American lawyer and writer, flew to Denver, to attend the annual conference of the Online News Association, where she [...]

Byline: Steve Coll Images of War On August 18th, Omran Daqneesh, who is five years old, survived an air strike on the apartment building where his family lived, in Aleppo, [...]

Byline: Steve Coll Defying Conventions On August 20, 1978, in East Jerusalem, a K.G.B. agent slipped a document into an American diplomat's empty parked car. The paper contained false claims [...]

Byline: -Steve Coll GLOBAL TRUMP In 1967, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson gave up on the remnants of Pax Britannica. His Labour Government pulled British forces from Malaysia, Singapore, Yemen, [...]

The 10-ton, top-heavy, psychedelic-painted, horn-blasting Tata truck is the dominant vehicle of commerce on India's Grand Trunk Road. There are so many of them because in India's post- independence, Nehruvian [...]

Byline: -Steve Coll ISIS AFTER PARIS In the week since the attacks on Paris, there has been a great deal of talk about waging war on the Islamic State, but [...]

Byline: -Steve Coll KEEPING SECRETS Hillary Clinton, in her memoir 'Living History,' recounts her struggle to defend her privacy while residing in the White House. Some of her stories have [...]

Byline: -Steve Coll THE DEAL In the late nineteen-eighties, in Switzerland, Iranian officials met with collaborators of A. Q. Khan, the scientist who fathered Pakistan's nuclear-bomb program. The parties may [...]

Byline: -Steve Coll SAUDI SHAKEUP Last January, Salman bin Abdulaziz ascended to the throne of Saudi Arabia and installed his son Mohammed bin Salman as Minister of Defense. The Minister, [...]

Byline: -Steve Coll DANGEROUS GAMESMANSHIP During the early nineteen-thirties, Bolivia and Paraguay fought a war over an arid borderland called Chaco Boreal. Congress passed a resolution permitting President Franklin Roosevelt [...]

Byline: BY STEVE COLL THE UNBLINKING STARE The drone war in Pakistan. At the Pearl Continental Hotel, in Peshawar, a concrete tower enveloped by flowering gardens, the management has adopted [...]

THE SENATOR VS. THE C.I.A. In the vestibule of Room 211 of the Hart Senate Office Building, just to the north of the Capitol, a cop guards an inner door [...]

ON THE TRAIL Last month, Colorado opened its first retail marijuana shops. At the Colorado Springs airport, there are now bins to help departing travellers remember to drop their pot [...]

HIGHER CALLING Steve Coll In 2005, Alaska Airlines fired nearly five hundred union baggage handlers in Seattle and replaced them with contractors. The old workers earned about thirteen dollars an [...]

PARTY CRASHERS Steve Coll In the late nineteen-sixties, Mitch McConnell came to Washington to work as an aide to Senator Marlow Cook, a Kentucky Republican. Cook backed clean-air standards and [...]

Early in 1987, Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi President, decided to clear out scores of Kurdish villages, in order to undermine separatist rebels. He asked Ali Hassan al-Majid, a general and [...]

In October, DreamWorks plans to release 'The Fifth Estate,' an international thriller about WikiLeaks. The director is Bill Condon, who made two of the 'Twilight' vampire movies; Benedict Cumberbatch plays [...]