After World War II, nations pledged to create a more equal and law-abiding world. Now Russia, China and the U.S. are returning to an older model in which powerful countries impose their will.

Challenges: The Cold War began when World War II ended, and in 1947, Harry S. Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism in Europe. In 1947, the North ...

President Biden’s decision to block the sale of United States Steel to the Japanese ... It also echoes what another Democratic president, Harry Truman, did 70 years ago when he seized steel ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in ... global superpowers. The United States and the Soviet ...