On May 23, 1998, the people of Northern Ireland did something that years of diplomacy, decades of violence, and generations of bitterness had made seem almost impossible: they voted for peace. In a referendum held across Northern Ireland, roughly three-quarters of voters endorsed the…
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In the spring of 1996, the disappearance and death of former CIA Director William Colby carried the eerie quality of a Cold War epilogue, the final act in the life of a man who had spent decades moving through the hidden architecture of American…
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On February 24, 1991, after more than five weeks of relentless aerial bombardment, coalition ground forces surged north across the Saudi Arabian border into Iraq, launching the decisive land campaign of the Gulf War. The moment marked the beginning of the war’s climactic phase—an…
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