It was, in many ways, one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in modern history, reshaping how an entire region remembered its own recent past. Historians have spent generations trying to undo ...

History often paints with a broad brush, dividing people into villains and heroes without much nuance. Yet the real story is far more complicated than black-and-white judgments. Some figures we’ve ...

Writing about Pakistan-U.S. relations is like composing a piece of literary criticism of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” always looking for new answers to old nagging questions, and falling short.