Henry Kissinger

WASHINGTON – Feb. 28, 2025: President Donald Trump welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House to sign a deal granting the US access to Ukraine's rare minerals.

No, Trump is not Attempting a “Reverse Nixon”

Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russia differ substantially from Nixon’s famous trip to China. 

The Next Chapter of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI has become the primary driver of the stock market surge in 2023, despite worries and anxieties on Capitol Hill about the technology’s unregulated status. The fear that...

What Was Kissinger’s Greatest Achievement? Stopping a Nuclear War

Most of the commentaries about Henry Kissinger’s life seem to agree that his greatest achievement by far was the breakthrough in 1972 in America’s relations with communist China. That event...

The Office That Henry Kissinger Built

Every American has Dr. Henry Kissinger to thank for helping to shape a more peaceful world. Every National Security Adviser who served after Kissinger has him to thank for skillfully...

Henry Kissinger’s Imbalance of Power

Surrounded by an aura of infallibility and prestige, Henry Kissinger was not the mythical Merlin he wanted to be, nor was he the simple criminal his detractors insisted he be....

Remembering Henry Kissinger

When I first met Henry Kissinger in 2009 as the Chairman of a group of international Councillors at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and later as Honorary Chairman...

In the National Interest Podcast: The Legacy of Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger and His World | RSS.com Henry Kissinger became the bête noire of the American right and left during and after the Vietnam War era for pursuing what critics...

Graham Allison: How Henry Kissinger Shaped My Life

I entered Henry Kissinger’s classroom at Harvard University 58 years ago, in 1965. Indeed, I have been learning from him ever since. When Henry Kissinger reached the 100-year marker last...

Mike Pompeo: What Made Henry Kissinger Truly Special

Henry Kissinger’s belief in American greatness was grounded in two fundamental recognitions: That the American economy was the most dynamic and innovative in the world, and that American military power...

Henry Kissinger Was a Legend for a Reason

Henry Kissinger, who died yesterday, was the last representative of the Eastern Establishment that guided foreign policy after World War II, when America quickly rose to become the predominant world...

Henry Kissinger Was the Right Man for the Moment

I was not always a fan of Henry Kissinger, the Nixon-era Secretary of State who died on Wednesday at age 100.  As a Ronald Reagan-loving conservative who worked on democracy-promotion...

Biden Needs to Seize His ‘Nixon Moment’

The conventional wisdom in the West holds that Russia and the United States are destined to be geostrategic enemies, at least for the foreseeable future. President Joe Biden has accepted...