During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...

A new, self-imposed Iron Curtain blocks any challenging literature from making its way into the hands of the young and woke.

The CIA's International Literacy Center played a vital role in providing access to “the expression of independent ideas so desperately sought by millions.” ...

William F. Buckley Jr.’s influence has been overstated, writes Bruce Fein in a review of a new biography of the late conservative thinker.

Inducted into the Marine Corps at a 1967 Twins game with 149 others, North Branch author Christy Sauro spent years collecting the Vietnam War stories of his fellow Marines.