The White House learns Soviet missiles are being built in Cuba, and the crisis turns real. On October 16, 1962, Kennedy ...

Atlantic national editor Benjamin Schwartz quotes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, right, who, in his retirement, emphasized that President Kennedy, left, felt allowing the missiles would be ...

It is true, as Tevi Troy writes in “All the President’s Yes-Men” (op-ed, Aug. 23), that former President John F. Kennedy created the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) after ...

Merely by suggestion, ExComm forces a mental divergence from the plan we’ve been following our whole lives — which, sadly, often isn’t what we wanted to spend our lives doing anyway. “ExComm was a ...

The Daily Blog posted an entry Saturday about the lifting of the excommunications incurred in 1988 by four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X. And later in the week in our next print issue, we’ll ...