Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, offered an overview of the Iran-Contra affair of 1986-87 during President Reagan's ...

IN A RECENT New York Times op-ed, “Mr. Cheney’s Minority Report” (July 19), historian Sean Wilentz claimed that there was a direct connection between Oliver North, the Iran-Contra Committee’s ...

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Michael Ledeen, a forceful defender of interventionist-style U.S. global policies who as a historian studied Machiavelli’s theories on power and as a Reagan-era adviser helped open channels for the ...

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Patrons at a pub watching TV to see Lt. Col. Oliver L. North's testimony before the joint Congressional hearing into Iran-Contra affair. Credit - Steve Liss—Getty Images President Donald Trump’s ...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is turning to Neil Eggleston, a veteran of the Whitewater and Iran-Contra confrontations between Capitol Hill and the White House, to help guide his administration ...

The life of Felix I. Rodriguez provides a tour through the dark heart of America. From the Bay of Pigs fiasco to Vietnam to the El Salvador death squads to the Iran-Contra scandal, the Cuban exile and ...

Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurpose the CIA’s Iran–Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie.

Alfonso Chardy, a Miami Herald journalist who anchored Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting that helped expose the Iran-Contra affair, a covert and illegal Reagan administration network to aid rebels in ...

President Donald Trump’s actions, including denying election results, ignoring court decisions, and attacking civic institutions, have left many concerned that American democracy is imperiled.