Howls of ‘Socialism!’ Killed Truman Health Insurance
Republicans and medical industry groups used Red Scare tactics to defeat early version of Medicare-for-All
60-Year-Old U-2 Spyplane Still Seeks Out the Enemy
Sixty years after its introduction, Lockheed’s U-2 spyplane continues to serve as America’s eyes in the sky over distant battlefields.
Amazing Story of the Lost H-Bomb
During a training exercise in 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber pilot was forced to ditch his payload—a 1.69-megaton nuclear weapon.
July 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Korean DMZ and the sinking, 37 years apart, of the cruisers Indianapolis and Belgrano
Topgun Turns 50
Founded in response to air combat shortcomings during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy’s fighter training program continues to turn out elite airmen
Casey Sherman & Michael Tougias: U-2s Over Cuba
In their book Above & Beyond authors Casey Sherman and Michael Tougias relate the exploits of U-2 pilots over Cold War Cuba
How ‘Doctor Feelgood’ Almost Drove John F. Kennedy to the Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Did the mysterious injections the president received from a quack doctor before a crucial summit with Comrade Khrushchev put the world closer to the nuclear brink?
Over Where? Cuban Fighters in Angola’s Civil War
Fidel Castro exports his brand of armed revolution
