Robert G. Kaiser | The New York Review of Books

Post Mortem

When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.

March 26, 2026 issue

Unraveling a Repressive Regime

Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause recognizes the achievements of the Soviet dissidents who for decades found the strength to resist stultifying Communist rule.

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

by Benjamin Nathans

June 12, 2025 issue

Fear and Loathing and the FBI

Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law

by James B. Stewart

Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump’s War on the FBI

by Josh Campbell

Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy

by Mike German

February 27, 2020 issue

Whose Country?

June 28, 2018 issue

The Meddling American

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

by Max Boot

June 7, 2018 issue

Letter

Donald E. Voth

Whose Country?

June 28, 2018 issue

The Closed Mind of Mitch

‘The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell’ by Alec MacGillis

The Long Game: A Memoir

by Mitch McConnell

The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell

by Alec MacGillis

November 10, 2016 issue

Secret Documents ‘Withheld Without Explanation’?

A letter regarding the Nixon Library

May 26, 2016 issue

The Disaster of Richard Nixon

He seems destined to remain an object of fascination, amazement, scorn, and disgust

Being Nixon: A Man Divided

by Evan Thomas

Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection

by Ken Hughes

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War

by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

by Tim Weiner

April 21, 2016 issue

Letter

Laura (Diachenko) Sheehan

Secret Documents ‘Withheld Without Explanation’?

A letter regarding the Nixon Library

May 26, 2016 issue

The Great Days of Joe Alsop

The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

by Gregg Herken

March 5, 2015 issue

Letter

Gregg Herken

Joe Alsop’s Address

April 2, 2015 issue

Our Conservative, Criminal Politicians

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

by Rick Perlstein

The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It

by John W. Dean

November 6, 2014 issue

‘Now They Tell Us’: An Exchange

March 25, 2004 issue

The Shrinking News

December 19, 2002 issue

Your Host of Hosts

Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism

by Robert Dallek

Reagan Inside Out

by Bob Slosser

Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

by Ronald Reagan

The Russians and Reagan

by Strobe Talbott, foreword by Cyrus R. Vance

June 28, 1984 issue

Letter

John R. Miles

Forthcoming Book

November 8, 1984 issue