Thinking back to his days as secretary of state, Mr. Shultz is quoted saying: "The world was not ready for a world free of nuclear weapons." It still isn't.

What makes a president great? Or a failure?

How are presidents remembered throughout history? Arthur Schlesinger Sr. popularized the ranking of presidents by professional historians, and the American people today are often asked, in numerous surveys, for their opinions of the best and worst presidents. In The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the Presidential...

The late Arthur SchlesingerJr.was an influential writer over the past century, and his journals provide insight into his life.

Though liberals may have put away their wings in foreign affairs, they are ever ready to soar higher at home, and Peter Beinart thinks our foreign policy travails are reason to cheer them on.

Rapidly declining popular support for the Obama presidency and his party may suggest that the current political moment is much more significant than most people realize, as it seems that the basic political rules have changed.

Neither Herbert Hoover nor Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated policies that worked.