Opinion | God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions

Republican officeholders are no longer coy about their religion-driven mission to stop abortion.

Priscilla McMillan, Who Knew Both Kennedy and Oswald, Dies at 92

A Cold War scholar, she met Lee Harvey Oswald four years before President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and later wrote “Marina and Lee,” a book about him and his Russian wife.

Opinion | Friends in High Places

Hanging with presidents: Sometimes First Friends are helping found a country; other times, they’re mixing martinis.

Was the Space Program Worth the Cost?

Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration.

Opinion | Secrets That Were No Secret, Lessons That Were Not Learned

As a soldier in Vietnam, I already knew what the Pentagon Papers revealed. In the years since, America's leaders have repeated the same mistakes.